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Iraqi forces say they are grouping for major assault on ISIS in Ramadi
[Rudaw] Iraqi forces reported gains against ISIS in the city of Ramadi in Anbar province, reporting that the bully boyz have lost the will to fight and that government had received reinforcements for a multi-pronged assault.Azal al-Fahdawi, a member of the Anbar provincial council, told Rudaw on Sunday that Iraqi forces had taken control of the Anbar Traffic department, as well as the neighborhood of Sabaa west of the city. "After a tense battle, Iraqi forces retook control of the Anbar Traffic directorate's building and the Ramadi neighborhood of Sabaa," Fahdawi said. "The group's remaining elements fled to other ISIS-controlled areas in Ramadi," he said. "In the next few hours the equations of power will dramatically change in Ramadi, because the ISIS bully boyz have lost their morale and we have received a supporting force to launch a multi-pronged assault inside Ramadi." Fahdawi announced. In a separate announcement Farhan Mohammed, another member of the Anbar provincial council, told Rudaw that the battle for Ramadi would take time because the Iraqi forces did not launch an immediate counter-attack against ISIS, after losing Ramadi about a fortnight ago. He ISIS took advantage of time to get more weapons into areas it controls. Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats Chumbaloni was staring into a hole that was just .45 inch in diameter and was less than three feet from his face ... US-led coalition warplanes pounded ISIS munitions dumps in the areas of Jazira and Badiya east of Ramadi, the Iraqi defense ministry said in a statement Sunday. "The warplanes managed to destroy ISIS bases and arsenals in the towns of Badiya and Jazira, causing heavy casualties among the group's bully boyz in the area and destroying all the ammunitions and weapons in the bases," it added. Posted by: trailing wife 2015-06-01 |
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