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Anbar Antix
3 suicide bombers die in attack attempt in AnbarAnbar (IraqiNews.com) Three Islamic State suicide bombers were killed as they attacked the Sunni tribal forces, east of Ramadi, Anbar province. Speaking to Mawazin News, Ghassan al-Eithawi, spokesperson of Al-Hashd Al-Ashaeri (Tribal Mobilization Forces), said “three attackers wearing suicide belts attempted attacking the troops deployed in Jazeerat al-Bu’ebeid region, east of Ramadi.” “Troops killed one of them, while the two others blew themselves up,” Eithawi said adding that “several security agents were slightly wounded.” Iraqi troops were able to return life back to normal in the biggest cities of Anbar including Fallujah, Ramadi and others after recapturing them. However, Anbar’s western cities of Annah, Qaim and Rawa are still held by the extremist group since 2014, when it emerged to proclaim a self-styled Islamic Caliphate. There has not been an officially-declared military campaign to free those regions, but the province’s military command launched a brief assault early January that managed to recapture some western villages before stopping again. A senior Iraqi officer was quoted last month as saying that a military operation was launched to drive IS militants out of the western regions in Anbar province. Fighter jets from the Iraqi army and the international coalition have also regularly pounded IS locations in the province.
Councilman Taha Abdul-Ghani says the attack took place at dusk on Sunday as authorities were accommodating families that had fled from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... -held town of Qaim. Abdul-Ghani says that a police colonel was among the dead. The officer became suspicious about the person in the long robe and walked up to the attacker, embracing him -- presumably to reduce the number of casualties -- as he detonated his explosives. The kaboom also maimed at least 20 people. Posted by: badanov 2017-07-04 |
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