Al Jazeera's Jane Arraf, reporting from Baghdad on Thursday, said the "major development is an indication that there is very fierce fighting ongoing in Anbar. This was ISIL taking a bridge across the Euphrates between the small city of Baghdadi and the larger city of Haditha".
Baghdadi, whose siege by ISIL has trapped residents, is not far from Ayn al-Asad airbase, which houses American forces and their coalition partners. It is the second largest US military airbase in Iraq.
Earlier on Thursday, ISIL sent a military vehicle with suicide bombers to try to get to one of the gates and detonate the explosives, our correspondent said,
"While the truck did not reach the gate, it did come to a few kilometres of one of the main gates of that base where they were repulsed by Iraqi forces," she said.
In another development, ISIL has released 30 men it had captured near Tikrit, according to Anwar Assi al-Obeidi, an influential local sheikh.
ISIL fighters reportedly captured 118 men and nine boys on Sunday from Rubaidha village, east of Tikrit, and then released 21 of the men - leaving 97 men and nine boys still in captivity.
Most of those captured have relatives fighting against ISIL, Obeidi told Al Jazeera on Thursday, adding that 600 members of his al-Obeid tribe have been killed by ISIL fighters since June.
A new UN report released this week documents widespread human rights violations committed by ISIL in Iraq between September and December last year.
"Members of Iraq's diverse ethnic and religious communities, including Turkmen, Shabaks, Christians, Yazidi, Sabaeans, Kaka'e, Faili Kurds, Arab Shia, and others have been intentionally and systematically targeted by ISIL and associated armed groups and subjected to gross human rights abuses," the report says.
[aljazeera.com]
26/2/15
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