Military operations are continuing in Baghdadi, especially
in the southern and southwestern areas of the town, as ISIL has redeployed its
forces and re-taken control of the town's center. The leader and members of the
local council have called for speedy action in providing additional security
forces to liberate the residential district housing 2,500 families of the
security forces and of the administrative leaders of the township. Meanwhile,
an Anbar Council source has announced that ISIL has executed 26 Baghdadi
residents who had been abducted two days ago. The executions were carried out in
Rawa.
Security forces have meanwhile re-taken government buildings
in western Baghdadi. Iraqi aircraft supported by coalition warplanes have struck
a number of ISIL positions in southwestern Baghdadi.
Yesterday, an armored brigade has reached the Ayn al-Asad
base to take part in the military operations in and around Baghdadi.
Reports are filtering through that the humanitarian
situation in the township is severe: there is no water, no food, no baby milk,
while 7 wounded residents have died, given the absence of medical
facilities in the township. 260 others are described as being in a critical
condition.
In Ramadi, a broad security operation is underway in the
city's southern sector, and has turned back an ISIL offensive in the area.
Anbar Operations are reporting that 9 gunmen were killed in the fighting. Operations
are also continuing on the opposite banks of the Euphrates ,
in the Shjariya area.
In Fallujah, a medical source has reported today that 2
residents have been killed and 4 wounded with the resumption of the
indiscriminate exchanges of mortar fire between the ISIL gunmen within the city
and the security forces around its perimieter.
In Garma and the other areas lying between Anbar Province
and the capital, Baghdad
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