Since the early hours of this morning, the fiercest clashes
to date have been raging in Ramadi, between ISIL gunmen who have seized
specific parts of the city's southern sector districts.
Security forces were able today to blow up a tank being
driven by the gunmen, and 9 other gunmen were killed.
Security forces have also today secured all the environs of
the government complex in central Ramadi. Anbar Operations sources are
confirming that the area is under their full control. The Operations Command
announced today that 3,000 volunteers have been recruited and will be embedded
with the security forces during the coming week.
The Anbar Council called again today for the intensification
of coalition and Iraqi airstrikes.
Garma has today been the scene of the fiercest clashes for five months. The fighting was concentrated on both the northern and southern
outskirts of the town. The bombardment of ISIL positions in the town has killed
3 ISIL leaders, while at least 11 civilians were also killed; according to
eyewitnesses, there are no medical personnel at the Garma hospital.
In Hit, an Anbar Operations source has said that at least 45
ISIL gunmen have been killed by the military campaign launched by security
forces supported by Iraqi aircraft in the extreme western sector of the town
and around the town's perimeter. Security forces have been advising Hit
residents to leave the town in advance of the all-out military operation.
On the humanitarian front, it was announced yesterday that at
least 18 displaced children have died
as a result of the hardships being experienced by the migrants who have
fled from Hit and southwestern Ramadi.
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