Iraqi Forces Resist ISIS Attack on Anbar City
Iraqi forces joined with their Sunni tribesmen allies and held off an attack by ISIS on one of the cities in the Anbar area near Baghdad. This attack comes fairly soon after the Iraqi forces and their allies lost the city of Ramadi to ISIS earlier in the week. The ISIS troops were trying to take over and capture Khaldiya, a city between Ramadi and the town of Fallujah.
This was considered one of the most important takeover for ISIS ever since the United States coalition in Iraq started to travel over their areas and bomb them with airstrikes last year. The plan now is to arm the Sunni tribesmen allies, according to the The Cabinet (www.whitehouse.gov/administration/cabinet), so they can help the
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These militia are called the Popular Mobilization Units (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_popular_crowd), and do a great role in getting rid of the ISIS militants, for instance, they were able to get them out of Tikrit, another city that was recently under attack.
Getting Tribe Help in Fight is Imperative
Sources say the help of the tribes in the Anbar region to travel and join in the fight is vital in the success of the efforts by the United States to get Iraq stabilized. However, since the US pulled out of the area the tribe’s leaders have maintained that the Iraqi government, which is mostly Shiite, treats the Sunni like second class citizens.
However, since Ramadi was taken over, the government sees the need to give the Sunni tribes weapons. Also, the government wants to recruit more Iraqi troops and other forces to help in the fight. The US government is responsible for helping to train and rebuild the Iraqi forces in their army, as well as to get Baghdad to work with the Sunnis, and to bomb the ISIS targets without needed to put boots on the
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