Iraq forces continue fight against militants
13 July 2014 4:53 AM IST
Iraqi forces battled a militant attack on the key city of Ramadi on Friday. The militant push to take Anbar provincial capital Ramadi comes two days before a planned parliamentary session.
Sunni militants have seized several areas west of Ramadi since the fighting began yesterday afternoon, killing 11 police, bombing a police station and taking control of another, a police lieutenant colonel and a doctor said. The officer said the insurgents were attempting to ‘storm Ramadi from the western side.’ The fall of the city, where anti-government fighters have held shifting areas since the beginning of the year, would be a major advance for the jihadist-led militants. It could increase the threat on the capital by solidifying militant positions in Anbar and breaking the isolation of rebel-held Fallujah, only 60 kilometres west of Baghdad.
Sunni militants have seized several areas west of Ramadi since the fighting began yesterday afternoon, killing 11 police, bombing a police station and taking control of another, a police lieutenant colonel and a doctor said. The officer said the insurgents were attempting to ‘storm Ramadi from the western side.’ The fall of the city, where anti-government fighters have held shifting areas since the beginning of the year, would be a major advance for the jihadist-led militants. It could increase the threat on the capital by solidifying militant positions in Anbar and breaking the isolation of rebel-held Fallujah, only 60 kilometres west of Baghdad.
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