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Iraq
More than 200 Anbar residents held captive by ISIS rescued in Iraqi operation
2015-11-24
Since no date or time period is given in this report, I assume it is a retrospective of cumulative action.
[Rudaw] At least 210 people in Iraq's Anbar province, held captive 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) last year were rescued by Iraqi forces and reunited with their families, the Iraqi military said Monday.

Several ISIS bandidos Lions of Islam also were killed in festivities with the Iraqi forces that were trying to free the hostages.

A statement by the military said that the operation took place in southern Anbar province. It said the captives were from 70 different families and that they had been returned to their tribes.

ISIS seized the Anbar capital of Ramadi on May 17, in what was considered one of the jihadists' most important victories, since majority Sunni Anbar is Iraq's largest province.

The Iraqi government began a military campaign against the bandidos Lions of Islam in Anbar on July 13, vowing it would continue until the province is entirely cleared of the turbans.

In September, the bandidos Lions of Islam destroyed the key al-Boshjal bridge to stop the advance of Iraqi forces. The Anbar provincial council has asked the Iraqi military to help rescue imprisoned Anbar residents, warning that ISIS might want to use them as human shields.

ISIS is in control of about a third of Iraq since launching a lightning offensive in June last year.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  and speaking of Anbar province, how's that furious Ramadi liberation op coming

the one that was 'days away' two weeks ago

yeah

that one
Posted by: lord garth   2015-11-24 07:43