RAMADI, Iraq — This is the anti-Fallouja strategy. Here, in the capital of Al Anbar province, the U.S. military is attempting to clear and pacify an insurgent stronghold without leveling the city in ...
Palmyra, Syria fell to ISIS just days after the militants chased the Iraqi army out of Ramadi, Iraq, a city of 500,000. ISIS is on the offense, its momentum unbroken by the U.S.-led campaign of ...
BAGHDAD — Fears of an imminent offensive by the U.S. troops massed around the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi intensified Saturday, with residents pouring out of the city to escape what they describe ...
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RAMADI, Iraq -- The dusty neighborhood in east Ramadi was deserted last week as U.S. and Iraqi soldiers rolled up to deliver water at a mosque. Not a good sign in this urban war zone, where residents ...
Ramadi is an important test case, particularly because of the coming battles for Fallujah and for Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city. If the coalition and Iraqi government can develop a coordinated ...
Since the fall of Fallujah in 2004, Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, has been the center of the insurgency in Iraq. Just in the past day, U.S. and Iraqi troops moved into the eastern part of the ...
RAMADI, Iraq -- -- RAMADI, Iraq -- A red sun sinks behind a dusty row of tents at Camp Ramadi, and another shift begins for the dogged crew of soldiers and Marines who nightly scour this city's ...
Iraqi forces backed by U.S.-led airstrikes drove Islamic State militants out of the center of Ramadi on Monday and seized the main government complex there, according to military officials, who said ...
"US troops repelled an attack Monday by Sunni Arab insurgents who used suicide car bombs, rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons in a coordinated assault against this city's main government ...
Iraqi soldiers assigned to the Commando Battalion, Ninewa Operations Command, fire VZ-58 rifles while participating in a rifle range at Camp Taji, Iraq, Nov. 10, 2015. The soldiers participated in the ...
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is an 18 September 2006 CPJ press release: IRAQ: TV correspondent murdered in Ramadi New York, September 18, 2006 – The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the murder ...