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Iraq's army and militants fighting in Ramadi
The militant group Islamic
State or ISIS has been waging a massive offensive againstRamadi, Iraq, stormed the
city with mortar and car bomb attacks directed at Iraq's
forces.
Local officials said the
attack was apparently aimed at taking over the control of theprovincial
capital, one of the last areas in the province of Anbar which
is still under the control of the Government of Iraq.
Militants reportedly fired
at ISIS government buildings in Ramadi. So far there
has been no estimate of the number of victims.
Iraq troops and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, has
been fighting, militants of the militant groups that seized
the ISIS territories in Northern and Western Iraq earlier
this year.
Overall Iraq has
experienced a surge of violence in 2014. Data from the
UN Mission inIraq shows more than 13,000 civilians and security
forces killed in Iraq until the end ofOctober this year – rose 75
percent from the same period in 2013. (VOA)
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