KURDISH FIGHTERS HAVE TAKN A CRUCIAL SUPPLY ROAD ROUTE FROM ISIS IN RAQQA CUTTIN ISISI SUPPLY ROUTE FROM TURKEY

i24news_EN ‏@i24news_EN · 4m4 minutes ago
#BREAKING: #IS jihadists seizes government HQ in #Iraq's #Ramadi after attacking city with six car bombs: officials

Middle East Eye ‏@MiddleEastEye · 7m7 minutes ago
BREAKING: IS miliitants take over government compound in Ramadi, capital of Iraq's province of Anbar: officials @AFP

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zerohedge ‏@zerohedge · 5m5 minutes ago
IS SEIZES GOVT HEADQUARTERS IN IRAQ’S RAMADI, AFP SAYS. US campaign doing great

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ISIS launching offensive in Iraqi city of Ramadi, official says

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 took over parts of Syria and Iraq for what it calls its Islamic caliphate.

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So does this mean ISIS took over AQ's headquarters, or the US installed puppet govt. headquarters? /sarc/

Seriously though, I thought ISIS already seized the headquarters once in the past, or am I wrong?

Then again, the way we "pulled out" of Iraq just guaranteed profits for the military industrial complex to keep milking the teat of .gov while satiating our prez's need to say the "war" is over.

Julian Röpcke ‏@JulianRoepcke · 1m1 minute ago
#BreakingNews
Most of #Ramadi falls to #IS.
6 suicide car bombs reportedly involved in the assault.
#Anbar #Iraq

The 47th ‏@THE_47th · 43s43 seconds ago
After 9 months of "tactical" coalition attacks --> RT @GebeilyM: IS seizes government HQ in Iraq's Ramadi -- @AFP

They are just evil. They stand for wrong. I think they must be stopped.

SCL

Nuke the entire Middle East.

Like taking candy from a baby...

how hard can it be when US had them the tools and even the key!

fuck isis and all the manufactured boogymans!

btw fuck the hashtags!

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DavidKenner ‏@DavidKenner · 3m3 minutes ago
@THE_47th To play off your typo, Anbar is actually derived from a Persian word meaning warehouse, apparently.


The 47th ‏@THE_47th · 2m2 minutes ago
ISIS now have #Ramadi, the capital of the Al Anbar Governorate, right in the middle of #Iraq.

Soon Baghdad will fall and whither then I ask?

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Michael Horowitz ‏@michaelh992 · 32m32 minutes ago
Government complex is burning in Ramadi as #ISIS claimed its militants seized it and blew it up

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Yet another OBAMA FOREIGN POLICY VICTORY!

(Only a RACIST would not agree!)

Lol.

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Captain Fallujah ‏@jaalqitaal · 3m3 minutes ago
#IS forces stormed & destroyed Iraqi army barracks in Kilo-35 area in W- #Ramadi taking many captives & spoils of war


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Captain Fallujah ‏@jaalqitaal · 8m8 minutes ago
#IS forces captured Al Qatana, Al Thayala, Al Aziziya, Al bu Alwan & Jam'ya districts as well as Street#17 in #Ramadi


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Captain Fallujah ‏@jaalqitaal · 12m12 minutes ago
#IS forces captured the government complex & destroyed Provincial Council & Police Directorate building in #Ramadi


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Captain Fallujah ‏@jaalqitaal · 6h6 hours ago

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#IS forces killed 50 #Iraq|i police officers as they took control on most of the districts in #Ramadi

How long before we have a fall of Saigon moment in Iraq?

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Benjamin T Decker ‏@btdecker · 2h2 hours ago
Amongst 70 #Ramadi residents executed by #ISIS was the head of the #Anbar Provincial Council Sabah Karhoot #Iraq

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Rami ‏@RamiAlLolah · 3m3 minutes ago
#BreakingNews #Reuters: #Ramadi fell to #ISIS completely.. #Iraq

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Iraq War in Anbar Province

Al Anbar is Iraq's largest and westernmost province. It comprises 32 percent of the country's total land mass, nearly 53,208 square miles (137,810 km2), almost exactly the size of North Carolina in the United States and slightly larger than Greece. Geographically, it is isolated from most of Iraq, but is easy to access from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Syria. The Euphrates River, Lake Habbaniyah, and the artificially created Lake Qadisiyah are its most significant geographical features. Outside of the Euphrates area the terrain is overwhelmingly desert, comprising the eastern part of the Syrian Desert. Temperatures range from highs of 115 °F (46 °C) in July and August to below 50 °F (10 °C) from November to March. The province lacks significant natural resources and many inhabitants benefited from the Ba'athist government's patronage system, funded by oil revenues from elsewhere in the country.[7]

The Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) estimated that about 1.2 million Iraqis lived in Anbar in 2003, more than two-thirds of them in Fallujah and Ramadi.[8] With a population 95 percent Sunni, many from the Dulaimi Tribe, Anbar is Iraq's only province without a significant Shia or Kurdish population. 95 percent of the population lives within 5 miles (8.0 km) of the Euphrates. At the time of the invasion, Fallujah was known as a religious enclave hostile towards outsiders, while Ramadi, the provincial capital, was more secular. Outside the cities, the ancient tribal system run by Sheikhs held considerable influence.[9]


Aerial photograph of a built-up area, with a major river, houses, and palm groves.


An aerial photograph of the urban areas around Ramadi and the Euphrates River, where a majority of the Anbar Province population lived[8]
Conditions in Anbar particularly favored an insurgency. The province was overwhelmingly Sunni, the minority religious group that lost its power and influence in post-Saddam Hussein Iraq. Hussein was also very popular in the province than anywhere else in the country.[10] Many did not fight during the invasion (allowing them to claim that they had not been defeated) and "still wanted to slug it out", according to journalist Tom Ricks.[11] Military service was compulsory in Saddam's Iraq and the Amiriyah area contained a sizeable portion of Iraq's arms industry.[12][13] Immediately after Saddam fell, insurgents and others looted many of the 96 known munitions sites, as well as local armories and weapons stockpiles. These weapons were used to arm the insurgents in Anbar and elsewhere.[12] While only a small minority of Sunnis were initially insurgents, many either supported or tolerated them.[14] Sympathetic Ba'athists and former Saddam officials in Syrian exile provided money, sanctuary, and foreign fighters to insurgent groups. Future al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi spent part of 2002 in central Iraq, including Anbar Province, preparing for resistance.[15] Within several months of the invasion the province had become a sanctuary for anti-occupation fighters.[13]


We lost a lot of Blood and treasure in Anbar Province and

NOW ISIS has it again what are we bombing over there CAMEL

TURDS AND SAND FLIES

*shrug* who cares...

Breaking News Islamic State raises flag over local government compound in Iraq's Ramadi

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If they ever hope to conquer the world ISIS has got to stop engaging in religious divisions with the Shias.

They have to unite Islam not divide it.

Unless they do they will never have the money or technology from research to defeat Europe, the US or China.

Stupid terrorists.

SIS (also known as Daesh) militants have seized the government headquarters of Ramadi Friday and raised their flag over the compound, according to Iraqi officials.

Jihadi fighters seized the government complex at around 2:00 pm (1100 GMT) and raised ISIS's black flag, capping an offensive launched Thursday, a police officer said.

ISIS "now occupies the government centre in Ramadi and has also raised its flag over the police HQ for Anbar," according to police major speaking on condition of anonymity.

The group itself issued a statement in which it said its fighters "broke into the Safavid government complex in the center of Ramadi."

The operation "resulted in the control of it after killing the 'murtadeen', then blowing up the adjacent buildings of Anbar's governorate and the Safavid Anbar police HQ."

Safavid is a term used by ISIS in a derogatory way to refer to government forces and "murtadeen" designates Sunni tribal fighters battling alongside the government.

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