The most prominent
development in Ramadi during the last three days has been the gunmen's deployment into
the city's western and southern sectors. The gunmen's movements have resulted
in intermittent clashes and have forced the districts' residents to once again
move out towards Hit and Al-Baghdadi. As a result, the local government has
once again called for tribal volunteers to join army and police forces in order
to bolster the security forces in their efforts at thwarting the gunmen's advances.
The 8th Brigade HQ has
again been hit by mortar and artillery fire and intermittent clashes have been
taking place throughout the night.
In Fallujah, 9
residents were killed and 27 others were wounded in yesterday's fierce shelling
of numerous districts within the city.
Al-Garma has also been
subjected to shelling and rocket-propelled grenade fire, resulting in the death
of 2 residents with 7 others wounded. The town is still controlled by
gunmen, while security forces are operating outside the town's perimeter.
Security sources are claiming that the operations are being targeted at groups
of gunmen.
In western Anbar
gunmen are still controlling the main towns as well as the crossing points
at both the Syrian and Jordanian
borders. Iraqi warplanes have attacked a number of positions in the region,
saying that the they are targeting the
gunmen groups.
There has been an
attempted assault on Haditha which is a fortified stronghold of the security
and tribal forces and is the location of the Haditha Dam. Security forces there
have been reinforced out of concerns that the gunmen would try to attack the
town.
Flyers have been
distributed in Hit and Al-Baghdadi warning residents against siding with the
security forces and fixing the end of Ramadan as the final deadline for their
'repentance' and their embracing the 'Islamic State' after resigning their
government jobs.
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