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| Iraq |
| ISIS cut off from weapons supplies in some parts of Anbar |
| 2015-06-15 |
| [Rudaw] Iraqi military officials say that 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.... group has been cut off from weapons supplies in some parts of Anbar province, whose capital fell to ISIS last month. Brig. Nasser Ghanam, commander of the Iraqi Army's Jazira and Badiya operations, said in a statement that ISIS has been cut off from weapons supplies from Syria through a border road running from Qaim to the town of Kobaisi in Ramadi. The statement said that about 10 ISIS The Iraqi military's Dijla and Badiya forces have distributed some 630 tons of food in the sub-districts of Baghdadi and Haditha, west of Baghdad, cutting the area off from Ramadi, which remains under ISIS control. In other military developments on Sunday, local officials in Baghdadi said tribal fighters had repulsed several ISIS attacks around the sub-district, killing 16 In mid-May Iraq announced the launch of a military operation to drive ISIS out of the western Anbar province, where the Lions of Islam captured the thriving provincial capital, Ramadi, in early May. |
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