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Iraq
Intense clashes in Ramadi between Iraqi forces and ISIS
2015-11-18
[Rudaw] Iraqi armed forces repulsed an assault by 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group (ISIS) in the Jarais area of northern Ramadi, destroying several boom-mobiles the Lions of Islam had planned to use against the military, an officer told Rudaw on Tuesday.

"Iraqi forces were able to defeat an assault by the Islamic State in the area of Jarais in northern Ramadi, destroying four boom-mobiles rigged with heavy explosives," said the Iraqi army's Brig Gen. Ismail Mahlawi.

Meanwhile,
...back at the argument, Livia had made her point with her knee to Jane's stomach...
a Rudaw news hound in Ramadi added that warplanes from the US-led coalition had bombed two improvised boom-mobiles in the area of Taamim in southwestern Ramadi.

Sources from the Anbar provincial council told Rudaw Tuesday that all ISIS supply lines into Ramadi had been cut off, adding that the city is surrounded by forces loyal to the Iraqi government.

Some 10,000 Iraqi soldiers, coppers, turbans of the Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi and tribal forces have been unsuccessfully fighting to clear Anbar province from ISIS since June. They have been unable to make any significant advances, with several assaults repulsed by the murderous Moslems.
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