Ukraine in Arabic | The Islamic State militants launched a major offensive of Anbar in Iraq
Kiev/ Ukraine in Arabic/ On Thursday, Vice-President of the USA Joe Biden praised the efforts of the Iraqi authorities in the fight against jihadists of the terrorist organization "Islamic state" (IG) and was sure that the peak of the successful promotion of the militants behind, and their maneuverability was severely restricted after the bombing of the Western coalition.
The next day, Friday, April 10, the is militants carried out a massive attack on the capital of Iraq's Anbar province city of Ramadi.
As a result, according to Reuters, the Iraqi authorities have lost control over two of the suburban area of this large settlement. According to police, the militants managed to take control of the districts of Alba Faraj (Albu Faraj) and AIT Alba (Albu Aitha), resulting in hundreds of local residents were forced to leave their homes. According to the military, the jihadists managed to break through the successful tactical maneuver - they sent a car with a suicide bomb at a line of defense against government troops in the North of the city.
Before the onset of IG spread information about the capture of the nearly 200 hostages in the area of al-Salamia in the Iraqi city of Mosul in Nineveh province.
According to the Lebanese TV channel "al-Mayadin", the majority of prisoners - soldiers and officers of the Iraqi army. In the heart of Mosul was executed Imam of a major mosque in the city - Sheikh Ibrahim Abdul Aziz al-Rahmani. The Islamic scholar, lost his life for refusing to preach the radical teaching that promote the terrorists of ISIS.