Teh One Who Knocks
05-15-2015, 11:08 AM
By Yousuf Basil and Jason Hanna, CNN
(CNN)ISIS has launched a wide-scale attack on Iraqi security forces in Ramadi in an apparent attempt to take the rest of the key central Iraqi city, the governor of Ramadi said Friday.
The ISIS offensive, which started Thursday night and continued into Friday, included suicide attackers who blew up explosive-rigged cars near security posts in Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's Anbar province, said Ramadi Gov. Suhaib Al-Rawi.
Ramadi is just 70 miles (113 kilometers) west of Baghdad and in the middle of Iraq's Sunni heartland. ISIS is the Sunni extremist group that controls parts of Syria and Iraq for what it calls its Islamic caliphate.
ISIS' areas of control include most of Anbar province and parts of Ramadi.
(CNN)ISIS has launched a wide-scale attack on Iraqi security forces in Ramadi in an apparent attempt to take the rest of the key central Iraqi city, the governor of Ramadi said Friday.
The ISIS offensive, which started Thursday night and continued into Friday, included suicide attackers who blew up explosive-rigged cars near security posts in Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's Anbar province, said Ramadi Gov. Suhaib Al-Rawi.
Ramadi is just 70 miles (113 kilometers) west of Baghdad and in the middle of Iraq's Sunni heartland. ISIS is the Sunni extremist group that controls parts of Syria and Iraq for what it calls its Islamic caliphate.
ISIS' areas of control include most of Anbar province and parts of Ramadi.