26 June 2015

In Baghdadi, ISIL today attacked the township on two fronts: from the west and from the south, against the areas between Baghdadi and Haditha. Security forces with Iraqi air support were able to repel both attacks while killing 8 ISIL gunmen; however some security personnel within the town were wounded. Iraqi gun ships and coalition warplanes carried out a number of strikes that have enabled the security to maintain control of their positions. Meanwhile, military and humanitarian supplies have also reached the blockaded areas in Baghdadi township. People’s Mobilization militiamen have also been deployed to the area.  

In Ramadi, clashes are underway in the eastern and northeastern areas, while security forces are still blockading the city along its perimeter. Iraqi and coalition aircraft are continuing their strikes on a number of targets and positions within the city. There are reports that 3 ISIL gunmen, including a field commander, have been killed in the southern sector’s Hawz district.

In Fallujah, a General Hospital source announced today that 8 residents were killed and 19 were wounded by thee ongoing random bombardment exchanges between the security forces controlling the city’s perimeter and the ISIL gunmen who have been holding the city itself for over a year. The incoming fire struck a number of Fallujah’s residential districts.

In Garma, security forces have liberated portions of the town’s southern industrial district. The town’s center is still surrounded by security forces that are due to launch a final assault to wrest control of the center.

22 June 2015

In Ramadi today, security forces are still tightening their grip around the city’s perimeter, while some partial military operations are continuing in the areas northeast of the city – from Eastern Husayba and on to Juwayba and the areas across and along the Euphrates River. Security forces have also advanced to within 2 km from the ISIL front lines within the perimeter. Security forces have also carried out a partial operation in the city’s southwestern quadrant where they were able to liberate a number of Ramadi residents who had been under ISIL control. Meanwhile, Iraqi gun ships and coalition warplanes have today struck a number of positions in various parts of the city, including the Hawz, Andalus, Bu-Farraj, and Bu-Ghanim areas. At least 9 ISIL gunmen, including one of their field commanders, were killed in the southern Andalus district.

In Fallujah, the indiscriminate bombardment exchanges are continuing between security forces on the city’s perimeter and the ISIL gunmen holding the city; 9 residents, including 3 women and 2 children were killed today and at least 24 were wounded in a number of the city’s residential districts by the exchanges.

Food and relief supplies are practically non-existent for the families stranded at the Bzaybiz Bridge crossing, and within the Amiriyat al-Fallujah, and Khalidiya refugee camps.

18 June 2015

An Anbar Operations source has announced that security forces have today succeeded in overrunning the center of Garma and have established control over broad portions of the center that is regarded as being one of the last of ISIL’s strongholds.

Meanwhile the Anbar Police Command has denied reports that an Iraqi Army helicopter has been shot down.

In Fallujah, clashes and mortar fire have intensified between the security forces along the city’s perimeter and the ISIL gunmen holding the city. The General Hospital reported today that 7 residents, including 2 children and one woman have been killed and 9 wounded by the random bombardment exchanges. 

In Ramadi, strict security measures and precautions are in place amid the military preparations in the city’s suburbs. Iraqi gun ships have again carried out air strikes in a number of Ramadi’s districts, including Hawz and Al-Andalus.

Elsewhere in Anbar, the commanding officer of the Jazeera and Badiya Operations, Nasser Al-Ghannam, has asked the Defense Ministry to relieve him of his command, apparently in response to ‘frivolous’ actions at the Ministry.

Security forces and Iraqi air support have thwarted ISIL attempts to gain control of the Baghdadi and Haditha areas. 

On this first day of Ramadan, hundreds of migrant families are still stalled at the Bzaybiz Bridge crossing and in Amiriyat al-Fallujah, where they are experiencing severe hardships coinciding with the rise in temperatures and the lack of foodstuffs and other humanitarian needs.

11 June 2015

In Garma today, security forces have liberated the Jazeera area across the river from the town, after they had disabled more than 150 explosive devices planted by ISIL gunmen and killed a number of them, according to the 1^st Division Command.

Iraqi and Coalition warplanes also carried out numerous strikes in the township. Security forces are now 5 km from the town center that is still under ISIL control.

In Ramadi, the eastern sector has been the scene of a military operation during which security forces killed at least 23 gunmen in eastern Husayba.

Security forces are now closing in on ISIL positions in and around the city center, Iraqi air support has carried out a number of strikes

In various Ramadi districts at least 45 gunmen have been killed by the strikes in which Coalition warplanes also took part, in the Bu-Farraj, Andalus, and Hawz districts along the outskirts of the city.

Meanwhile ISIL gunmen have prevented many families from leaving Ramadi; the gunmen have been using them as human shields to thwart the security forces’ advance.

Meanwhile, families have begun to leave Fallujah, following confirmed reports that security forces, People’s Mobilization militiamen, and tribal fighters are preparing for an assault on the city. Here, too, ISIL gunmen have prevented some of the families from leaving, after security forces had bombarded a large number of ISIL positions, particularly in the city’s industrial zone that has been used by ISIL to booby-trap vehicles and to manufacture explosive devices.

In western Anbar, security forces are engaged in an operation across the river from Ramadi where they have killed at least 11 gunmen.

The humanitarian situation at the Bzabiz and Amiriyat al-Fallujah encampments remains unchanged but becoming more desperate because of the rise in temperatures.

10 June 2015

In Garma, broad military operations are still underway between the joint security forces supported by tribal fighters and People’s Mobilization militiamen against ISIL gunmen. Three gunmen have been killed and 4 explosives-rigged vehicles blown up before the gunmen could detonate them against the security forces. All the areas up to the southern outskirts of Ramadi have been cleared.

Meanwhile, Iraqi air support has struck a number of ISIL positions around Garma, where sources have reported that at least 17 gunmen were killed. Security forces are now poised to assault the Garma town center.

In Ramadi, security forces are facing the ISIL front line in eastern Husayba where fierce clashes have enabled security forces to advance onto the southern and western axes. Reinforcements and munitions supplies have been deployed to a number of areas on the outskirts of Ramadi, prior to the launch of the total assault on Ramadi. Iraqi gun ships have attacked a number of districts – from Bu-Farraj and on to the Hawz district in southernmost Ramadi. Ground forces have not yet been ordered to advance.

In western Anbar, the Jazeera Operations forces carried out a military operation in the desert areas between Haditha township and Anah township that is still controlled by ISIL gunmen. A direct route has been established between Haditha and Baghdadi and on to the Ayn al-Asad military base.

In Fallujah, heavy bombardment yesterday has, according to General Hospital sources, killed 6 residents and 9 wounded by the random bombardment of the city’s residential districts.

12 May 2015

In Ramadi, military operations are still underway in various parts of the city: to the east, security forces have penetrated into the outskirts of Sufiya and disarmed a large number of explosive devices planted by ISIL gunmen, killing 3 gunmen in the area.

Security forces are also still fully surrounding the Bu-Farraj area

In the city’s southern sector, fierce clashes have raged in the Hawz and nearby districts. Iraqi gun ships have struck a number of ISIL positions in that area.

Meanwhile, the city’s central and eastern districts are relatively calm, normal activity has returned to the streets, and families are making their way back to their homes.

In Garma, major military operations are underway: security forces foiled an attack with 2 explosives-laden vehicles against the Subaihat district.

In Fallujah, a General Hospital source has reported that 7 residents have been killed and 9 wounded by the ongoing random bombardment exchanges between security forces on the city’s perimeter and the ISIL gunmen holding the city.

In Baghdadi, the residents blockaded in the town have again called for speedy action to save the hundreds of families who are now without food or water. The calls have been posted on the social media websites.

08 May 2015

ISIL gunmen have attacked the Habbaniya township in easternmost Anbar, but security forces have been able to control the situation by repelling the attack and inflicting heavy losses on the attackers, according to an Anbar Operations source. The gunmen launched their attack from the direction of Khalidiya Island but were unable to approach Habbaniya. Four gunmen were killed and 6 personnel carriers were destroyed; the remainder withdrew deep into the Khalidiya area.

In Ramadi, it has been announced that the central Ramadi area has been brought under full control of the security forces, while 5 gunmen were killed in operations in the Sufiya area.

In southernmost Ramadi, security forces have carried out military operations in the Hawz and adjacent districts, killing at least 9 ISIL gunmen. Anbar Operations have stressed that security forces have fortified their positions around the government complex in the city center.

In the Bu-Farraj area in northern Ramadi, the area has now been surrounded but there is still fierce resistance by the gunmen in the town center.

In Fallujah, a General Hospital source has reported that 3 residents have ben killed and 7 wounded by the ongoing indiscriminate bombardment exchanges between security forces on the city’s perimeter and the ISIL gunmen holding the city.

In Amiriyat al-Fallujah, the security situation is calm, but precautionary security measures are in place following reports of an imminent ISIL attack against the township.

In Garma, the situation is relatively calm following the takeover by security forces of most of the townships districts and areas.

07 May 2015

Military operations are still underway in a number of districts in Ramadi: security forces and Iraqi gun ships have killed an ISIL commander and 3 of his aides in the Jazeera area.

Operations in the eastern Sufiya area have enabled security forces to advance deep into the town, but ISIL resistance and counterattacks have been slowing the advance; security forces have reported that at least 13 gunmen have been killed there.

Operations are also continuing in Ramadi’s southern sector Hawz and adjacent districts toward the government complex in the city center where Iraqi air support has prevented the gunmen from reaching the complex.

Meanwhile life is back to normal in the city’s central districts, with substantial activity in the public marketplaces.

Also today, security forces have launched a number of attacks in the Bu-Farraj area in northernmost Ramadi. Operations began today in the Shjariya area and have made advances with the deployment of military equipment and vehicles into Ramadi.

In Baghdadi and its surrounding areas, military reinforcements have also been deployed in preparation for a major military operation on Baghdadi and Hit township, with the aim of liberating these areas from the ISIL presence.

In Fallujah, a General Hospital source reported a short time ago that 6 residents have been killed and 6 wounded by the ongoing random bombardment exchanges between security forces around the city and the ISIL gunmen within the city that they have been holding for more than a year.

06 May 2015

In Ramadi security forces have successfully withstood a fierce attack by ISIL gunmen from each of the northern and eastern fronts. The forces blew up at least 2 booby-trapped vehicles which the gunmen tried to use to penetrate from the northern sector in the Bu-Farraj area, and from the easternmost area of Sufiya. Iraqi gun ships and coalition warplanes also struck targets amid the attacking gunmen who have now withdrawn on both fronts: back across the Euphrates, and deep into the Sufiya area where security forces and elements of the ‘Golden’ Division have launched a military operation, supported by police and tribal fighters. At least 11 ISIL gunmen have been killed in the fighting.

In Ramadi’s southern sector – in the Hawz and adjacent districts – military operations have continued and extended to the environs of the government complex in the city center.

In Fallujah, a General Hospital source has reported that 2 residents were killed and 6 were wounded by the ongoing random bombardment exchanges between security forces around the city’s perimeter and the ISIL gunmen who have been holding the city for more than year.

Farhan Mohammed, an Anbar Council member, has revealed that ISIL forces are massing in western Anbar at Al-Qaim, apparently preparing to launch a major attack on Haditha and Baghdadi townships. Many gunmen have been deployed in the Al-Qaim, Ana, and Rawa areas for that purpose.

In Garma, security forces have taken full control of the township, but some areas are still booby-trapped while security forces are trying to clear the explosives; there have been some intermittent skirmishes in various parts of the township.

05 May 2015

Security forces have succeeded in thwarting two fierce ISIL attacks against central Ramadi: the first was from the eastern Sufiya area, in which the gunmen attempted to assault the city’s eastern districts, but security forces with Iraqi air support were able to turn back the attackers towards the Sufiya area; the second attack came from the Zankura area in northwestern Ramadi, but security forces with Iraqi air support and units of the ‘Golden’ Division were able to turn back the attack. The Anbar Operations Command has reported that at least 20 ISIL gunmen were killed in the fighting in both areas.

Military operations are still underway in the city’s southern Hawz district, with security forces establishing a broader perimeter around the government complex in the city center.

Iraqi gun ships and coalition warplanes have targeted the Ta’meem area west of Ramadi where at least 9 gunmen were killed.

Military operations are also still underway in Garma; a military source has reported that 3 Iraqi army personnel have been killed and 5 wounded when a booby-trapped house was detonated in Garma township.

In Fallujah, a General Hospital source reported today that 2 residents have been killed and 4 wounded by the ongoing indiscriminate bombardment exchanges between security forces around the city’s perimeter and the ISIL gunmen holding the city.

ISIL has also blown up two schools: on in the Sufiya area and the other in central Ramadi.

03 May 2015

Multiple military operations are still underway in various parts of Ramadi: there have been clashes in the Sufiya area east of the city that have spread to the areas toward the city center. The northern and northeastern sectors of the city were reported to be under control, but some ISIL pockets are still operating. Security forces have been able to penetrate into parts of Sufiya – considered to be the eastern access route into Ramadi – where they have killed at least 13 ISIL gunmen.

Meanwhile, more than 30 families have today returned to their homes in some of the city’s central residential districts, amid strict security measures aimed at preventing gunmen from infiltrating alongside the returning families.

Also today, Iraqi army gun ships and coalition warplanes carried out a number of sorties against the city’s southern sector districts. The raids have killed at least 18 ISIL gunmen.

A security source has reported that security forces have liberated the areas around the Ramadi Teaching Hospital and the areas leading to the Hawz district.

In Fallujah, a General Hospital source reported today that 4 residents have been killed and 11 wounded by the indiscriminate bombardment exchanges between security forces surrounding the city and the ISIL gunmen who have been holding the city for more than one year.

In Garma, security forces are still surrounding and blockading the town center but have been unable to penetrate all the way into the center. Security snipers have been able to pick off 3 ISIL gunmen within the town center. Some families have been returning to their homes in the liberated districts of the town.

In Baghdadi, families that have fled from their homes in the town’s eastern districts have called on the central and local governments to urgently intervene, while some children have been succumbing to the rise in temperatures and the lack of food aid.

01 May 2015

The Anbar Council announced today that security forces have made significant advances in the Sufiya area east of Ramadi, pushing toward the town center and killing at least 17 ISIL gunmen; they have also cleared 23 homes of the explosives planted by the gunmen to hinder the advance of the security forces. Meanwhile security forces have seized large quantities of arms and ammunition left behind by the gunmen as they were driven back in the city’s southern Hawz and nearby districts. Iraqi gun ships and coalition warplanes also struck a number of positions in the sector, killing at least 8 gunmen. They have also struck a number of targets in the Ta’meem district which has been an ISIL stronghold.

In western Anbar, a broad military operation is underway by the Al-Jazeera Operations in the Baghdadi and Haditha areas. They have reported that at least 11 gunmen have been killed in the clashes in the areas separating the two townships.

In Fallujah, a General Hospital source announced today that 3 residents have been killed and 7 wounded by the continuing indiscriminate bombardment exchanges between the security forces on the city’s perimeter and the gunmen holding the city.

In Garma, the ongoing military operations have not yet allowed the security forces from seizing the town center, but reports say that this may be achieved in the coming hours.

30 April 2015

In Ramadi, the city’s central residential districts have been relatively calm today, with the return of 2,433 families to their homes that the security forces have surrounded with strict security measures. Meanwhile the center’s public marketplaces have been active.

Clashes have been taking place in the Sufiya and Bu-Farraj areas and toward the city’s southern sector, especially in the Hawz and nearby districts. Security forces have been able to penetrate into Sufiya but they are facing fierce resistance by the ISIL gunmen.

A number of military units and supplies have reached Ramadi and have been deployed to the northern, eastern, and the western sectors and in the area around the government complex in central Ramadi where security forces have repelled an ISIL attack; at least 8 gunmen were killed in the fighting.

Iraqi gun ships and coalition warplanes have struck targets in  the southern sector in and around the Hawz district where 3 gunmen have been reported killed.

In Fallujah, the random bombardment exchanges between security forces on the city’s perimeter and ISIL gunmen holding the city has killed at least 13 residents, including women and children, and wounded at least 12.

Military operations are still underway in Garma, with security forces now only 500 meters away from the town center.

28 April 2015

Many of Ramadi districts are still the scenes of broad military operations in which security forces have reported killing at least 17 ISIL gunmen deep within the Sufiya area east of Ramadi.

Iraqi gun ships and coalition warplanes have also struck a number of areas within Ramadi, and the Bu-Farraj and Sufiya in particular.

In the Ta’meem area in western Ramadi, long an ISIL stronghold, security forces have reported killing at least 35 gunmen.

The forces have also reported turning back an ISIL attack from the city’s southern Hawz district, killing at least 13 gunmen.

Meanwhile security forces have penetrated into the residential districts of central Ramadi, and have announced taking control of all the central and east/central districts of Ramadi.

In Fallujah, the General Hospital announced today that 6 residents have been killed and 7 wounded by the ongoing random bombardment exchanges between the security forces positioned around the city’s perimeter and the ISIL gunmen holding the city.

In Garma, security forces have successfully advanced toward the town center but have not yet reached the central residential districts.

In Amiriyat al-Fallujah, strict security are in place, following reports that ISIL is planning to assault and seize the town, although security forces have thwarted a number of ISIL attacks on the southwestern sector of the town.

26 April 2015

In southwestern Ramadi, an army barracks was attacked by an explosives-laden vehicle, killing 7 security personnel and wounding 5 others. Security forces have repelled another surprise ISIL attack armed with light and medium weapons in the same area. There are still reports indicating ISIL’s intention to attack that area.

Meanwhile in Baghdadi, security forces have confronted since the early hours of this morning a fierce two-front ISIL attack: one was from the eastern reaches of the town and the second from the western Jubba area. The security forces’ Emergency Regiment repelled the attack, reporting that they have killed 14 of the attacking gunmen.

Iraqi gun ships and coalition warplanes have attacked a number of areas and ISIL positions. There are also reports of an imminent campaign by security forces to take control of the eastern sector of Baghdadi.

The Sufiya area east of Ramadi came under heavy bombardment and it is reported that security forces are planning to penetrate into the Sufiya in the coming hours, after Iraqi air support and coalition warplanes pave the way for them to advance.

In central Ramadi, ISIL has blown up a building housing at the Anbar University college.

Meanwhile security forces are advancing into Ramadi’s southwestern sector, particularly the Hawz district.

Also today, military reinforcements have reached the city center and the Bu-Farraj area.

Since yesterday, more than 2,000 families have returned to the central Ramadi districts.

In Tharthar, troops have parachuted into the vicinity of the Warwar Barrage held by ISIL gunmen in this extreme southwestern area of the province.

In Fallujah, two booby-trapped fuel tanker trailers were detonated by security forces on the city’s northern outskirts. At least 19 gunmen were killed by bombardments launched by security forces in the area; meanwhile, sources are reporting that there have been civilian casualties in southwestern Fallujah.

In Garma, the military operation to seize control of the town is in its second day and fierce clashes are still continuing there. 

25 April 2015

Today, ISIL gunmen have occupied the Tharthar Barrage in southern Anbar. ISIL launched an attack on a military barracks manned by the Iraqi army’s 1^st Division, and then took control of the other barracks after bombarding the positions.  Fierce fighting ensued, but the security forces have been calling for more than a week for military reinforcement and supplies to these barracks, but no aid has been forthcoming. Security sources have reported that at least 141 army and security personnel were killed in the fighting, among them the 1^st Division’s commanding officer, Brig.-Gen. Hassan Abbas, and a regimental commander. ISIL gunmen have taken control of all the areas between al-Thathar and Fallujah. Meanwhile Iraqi gun ships and coalition warplanes have struck a number of positions in these areas and security forces have announced that at least 30 gunmen were killed.

At the Treybil border crossing on the Iraqi-Jordanian border, ISIL gunmen using 3 explosives-laden vehicles have killed at least 5 security personnel were killed and at least 11 were wounded in the attack.

Meanwhile, military operations are at their fiercest in the eastern Ramadi Sufiya area where security forces have penetrated into the town byt ISIL gunmen have counterattacked.

In the southern sector of Ramadi, security forces have taken control of the Hawz district and a number of other districts in southern Ramadi. Security forces have succeeded in penetrating into the Bu-Farraj area north of Ramadi where broad military operations are still underway. Iraqi gun ships and coalition warplanes have carried out numerous strikes on the areas along Ramadi’s perimeter.

14 April 2015

In northeastern Ramadi, military operations are continuing in the Bu-Farraj area; an Anbar Operations source has announced that security forces have successfully repelled four ISIL attacks, and have taken control of the town’s southern sector – about 30% of the total area. Meanwhile, security forces have mined and booby-trapped the roads leading into the town. Coalition warplanes and Iraqi air support have launched strikes against a number of the gunmen’s positions in the area and security sources have reported that at least 77 gunmen were killed in the Bu-Farraj and surrounding areas.

Security forces have also repelled an ISIL attack in the southern Ramadi Hawz district and adjacent districts. Four gunmen were killed in the fighting.

ISIL gunmen have also attempted today to penetrate into Ramadi city from its western sector, but security forces with Iraqi air support have bombarded the ISIL-controlled areas from which the attack was launched.

In Fallujah, ISIL gunmen have been taking security precautions in advance of the imminently expected military operation to retake the city.

Meanwhile, 6 residents have been killed and 11 wounded by the ongoing random bombardment exchanges between security sources around the city’s perimeter and the ISIL gunmen holding the city.

In Garma, security forces today launched a major military operation against the town center, following the exodus of hundreds of families from the town. Security forces have reported making advances into the town but have not yet reached its center.

12 April 2015

Military operations are still underway in the Bu-Farraj areas east of Ramadi where major reinforcements have now been deployed; two regiments of Emergency Police forces have reached the outskirts of the town, but ISIL has committed a number of atrocities in the town center, by executing at least 18 security forces personnel, having taken them by surprise and cornering them inside a residential home. They were shot to death today in the Bu-Farraj center. ISIL gunmen also detonated a booby-trapped vehicle today on the Bu-Farraj Bridge linking the town with Ramadi City. ISIL The gunmen are now fully in control of the areas across the Euphrates, following their seizure of the surrounding areas. Meanwhile, hundreds of families have fled Bu-Farraj to the residential districts within Ramadi where they are sheltering in the schools and mosques under harsh living conditions.

Coalition warplanes and Iraqi air support have carried out strikes throughout today and into this evening, targeting numerous positions in the Bu-Farraj and adjacent areas.

The local Anbar government confirmed today that Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has ordered security forces to urgently dispatch military aid to Ramadi, and some military equipment has indeed arrived today, but the various people’s militias have today withdrawn from the Shjariya area toward the Habbaniya Base.

Meanwhile military operations have moved to Ramadi’s southern sector where security forces have succeeded in establishing control of the Hawz and adjacent districts and on  and on towards the northwestern districts. Iraqi air support has been used in attacking targets in western Ramadi.

In Amiriyat al-Fallujah, more than 30 mortar rounds have struck overnight numerous targets in the town’s southwestern sector. Ten civilians have been wounded in the town that is experiencing severe food shortages.

In Fallujah, the situation is relatively calm; some mortar rounds have struck the city but no casualties have been reported by the city’s general hospital.

09 April 2015

In the continuing military operations in the Shjariya area east of Ramadi, security forces have secured all of those areas. The forces and the Anbar Council have confirmed that large numbers of ISIL gunmen have fled toward Hamidhiya, southwest of Shjariya.

Security forces have killed at least 23 gunmen, according to Anbar Operations sources.

Also today, Faleh al-Issawi, the Deputy Anbar Council leader, confirmed that Hezbollah units have taken part in the operations that liberated the Shjariya area. More volunteers are also expected to take part in the campaign to liberate Anbar from the ISIL gunmen.

Meanwhile the ‘Golden’ Division’s antiterrorist and rapid-deployment units have carried out a broad operation in the southern districts of Ramadi, specifically advancing to Hawz district.

Iraqi air support has also launched attacks all along the stretch between the southern and northwestern sectors of Ramadi, and security forces have also killed at least 11 gunmen, and at least 3 ISIL snipers were killed when the building they were using was targeted.

Meanwhile Sheikh Na’eem al-Gu’ud, an Anbar tribal elder, announced that ISIL have executed more than 300 al-Qaim residents, having accused them of cooperating with security forces and providing them with intelligence. They had been held in secret ISIL prisons in al-Qaim. The report has not yet been confirmed by either local or external Anbar government sources.

Military operations in Fallujah are continuing; the mobile communications network has been restored, after it had been shut down for more than 48 hours.

A General Hospital source has reported that 14 residents, including women and children, have been killed by the random bombardment exchanges during the past two days, and at least 24 have been wounded by the mortar exchanges between security forces around the city’s perimeter and the gunmen still holding the city.

In Garma, military operations are still underway; the town is fully surrounded amid reports suggesting that a security forces’ assault on the town is imminent.

07 April 2015

In Ramadi, a curfew has been imposed on the whole city as from 12:00 noon today. This was prompted, according to Anbar Operations sources, by reports that ISIL is planning an attack on the city’s central and northeastern districts using car-bombs. Another reason for the curfew has been the launch of a military operation in northeastern Ramadi’s Shjariya town. Security forces have encircled the town and have launched a three-pronged attack, from the north, the east, and the south against the town where major reinforcements have been deployed. Anbar Operations sources are reporting a mass withdrawal of the ISIL gunmen from Shjariya, toward the opposite banks of the Euphrates. Six booby-trapped homes have been cleared in the town, and roadside explosives along the roads into the town have also been cleared.

A Fast Response Force officer has announced that the security forces have advanced and liberated a number of areas in southern Ramadi’s Hawz district, killing a number of gunmen. Meanwhile two security regiments have arrived from Baghdad: one has been deployed in westernmost Ramadi, and the second in the city’s northern sector. These reinforcements and the arrival of large quantities of supplies and equipment are expected to bolster the major operation that will deal with most of Anbar Province.

Clashes are continuing in the easternmost sector of Ramadi in the areas between the city and the ‘Japanese’ Bridge and on toward Garma whose center is still surrounded by security forces.

In Fallujah, a General Hospital source has announced that 2 residents have been killed and 7 wounded by the continuing random bombardment exchanges between security forces on the city’s perimeter and the ISIL gunmen still holding the city.

In Amiriyat al-Fallujah, the curfew has been lifted today and the situation is ‘normal’ and there has not been any incoming mortar fire.