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Iraq
Anbar Activities
2015-03-14
Anbar Council denies 50 soldiers being killed in coalition strike

[IraqiNews.com] On Thursday, Anbar Provincial Council denied, that the international coalition conducted an air strike on a headquarters for the army in the area of Albu Ziyab, located in northern Ramadi.

The president of the council, Sabah Karhoot, stated for IraqiNews.com: "The international coalition did not carry out strikes in the area of Albu Ziyab in northern Ramadi," pointing out that, "Elements of the ISIS group are those who conducted that terrorist attack using 300 high explosive bombs."
Three hundred bombs?! Very impressive, indeed.
Karhoot has called for an investigation to be opened about the incident.

Earlier today, MP Hanan al-Fatlawi claimed that an indiscriminate shelling by the international coalition warplanes had left 50 soldiers dead and dozens of others maimed in Anbar province.

IA foils suicide attacks on military headquarters eastern Ramadi

[IraqiNews.com] On Thursday, a security source in Anbar province said, that seven ISIS elements have been killed while attempting to carry out suicide kabooms on a military headquarters in eastern Ramadi.

The source told interview, "This afternoon, seven suicidal elements of the ISIS group driving seven vehicles attacked the headquarters of the Army's 2nd Brigade near the Japanese Bridge, located in eastern Ramadi," pointing out that, "Army forces, stationed in the headquarters, began to open fire on the vehicles to prevent them from reaching their targets."

"The festivities resulted in killing the seven elements and destroying their vehicles," the source confirmed.

ISF defeat ISIL attack on Ramadi

[IraqiNews.com] Iraqi security forces supported by Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve successfully defeated an 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and the Levant attack on Ramadi in the Anbar region of Iraq March 13, task force officials reported today.

The Iraqi forces were simultaneously attacked in several locations in Ramadi and the surrounding areas with small-arms fire, vehicle-borne improvised bombs and indirect fire, officials said.

Iraqi air and ground security forces responded in force and successfully defeated the attacks, said officials, noting ISIL had gained no ground, officials added.
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