{"id":3287,"date":"2014-01-04T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3287"},"modified":"2014-01-04T08:00:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T08:00:09","slug":"al-qaeda-linked-fighters-push-into-iraqi-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/01\/04\/3287\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Qaeda-linked fighters push into Iraqi city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/falluja_iraq_qaeda.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>Al-Qaeda-linked fighters have advanced into new areas of Iraq&#8217;s Ramadi city and have managed to hold part of Fallujah despite efforts from the country&#8217;s army and tribesmen to regain control.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, which operates in both Iraq and neighbouring Syria, forced their way into areas of central Ramadi early on Friday amid clashes with the military forces, a police captain said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ISIL deployed snipers on one street in Ramadi, two of whom were killed by the Iraq&#8217;s Counter-Terrorism Service later in the day, according to a report by Iraqiya state television.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The report also said the government forces &#8220;burned four vehicles carrying terrorists&#8221; in Ramadi and quoted the Anbar Operations Command as saying that 10 &#8220;terrorists&#8221; had been killed in the city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Joint efforts<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There were also claims that armed tribesmen joined forces with the army to fight the ISIL fighters in Ramadi.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sheikh Ahmed Abu Risha, a senior leader of the Sahwa armed group, told the AFP news agency Iraqi security forces and allied tribesmen killed 62 ISIL fighters in Ramadi on Friday, including 16 men in Khaldiyah outskirt and 46 more inside the city itself.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Another senior officer, a police lieutenant colonel, said soldiers deployed around Fallujah, were yet to enter the city.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Parts of Ramadi and Fallujah have been held by armed men for days, a return to the years immediately after the 2003 US-led invasion when both cities in Anbar province were rebel strongholds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source: <em><strong>Agencies<\/strong> <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Qaeda-linked fighters have advanced into new areas of Iraq&#8217;s Ramadi city and have managed to hold part of Fallujah despite efforts from the country&#8217;s army and tribesmen to regain control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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