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| Iraq |
| Officials: Iraqi forces retake Anbar University near Ramadi |
| 2015-07-27 |
| [RUDAW.NET] Iraqi government forces recaptured Anbar University 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.... bad boy group Sunday after hours of fierce festivities, provincial officials said, as part of its push to reclaim territory across the embattled province. The university, located 5 kilometers (3 miles) south of Anbar's quiet provincial capital, the bad boy-held city of Ramadi, was under the full control of government forces, which had entered the complex early Sunday amid intense combat with the bad boy group. Athal al-Fahdawi, a provincial councilman said a number of buildings in and around the university complex have been badly damaged or destroyed, but that the Death Eaters retreated. Another Anbar councilman, Faleh al-Issawi, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that about two dozen Islamic State fighters were killed in the festivities. He declined to provide more details. The Iraqi military launched a large-scale operation this month to retake Anbar province, in which most of the biggest cities are held by the Islamic State group. The loss of Ramadi in mid-May recalled the collapse of Iraqi security forces last summer in the face of the Islamic State group's blitz into Iraq that saw it capture a third of the country, where it has declared an Islamic caliphate. A US-led coalition has launched more than 3,000 Government-backed forces, which include the Iraqi military, Shiite militias and Sunni tribes, are also currently assembling around the bad boy-held city of Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperityor a really nice place to raise your kids... which was the first major city in Iraq to fall to the bad boy group in early 2014. Troubles first began for Anbar University in June 2014 when Death Eaters stormed the campus, briefly taking students hostage before withdrawing from the school amid gunfire. Ramadi was long under the protection of the local tribes and government-backed forces, which managed to hold on to the city longer than most others in the province. |
| Posted by:Fred |