[Rudaw] Iraq's Ministry of Defense released footage on Friday that it says shows air strikes on 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....
targets in Anbar province.Thursday night saw ISIS take hold of most of Ramadi, the province's capital, including a security compound that houses the police headquarters and governor's office. Anbar, Iraq's largest province, is strategically placed as it stretches from the Syrian border almost to Baghdad.
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