The offensive to capture the city center started at dawn, said [spokesman Sabah al-Numani]. Military units crossed the Euphrates river into the central districts using a bridge that was destroyed by the militants and fixed by army engineers, and another floating bridge set up to bring in more forces, he said.”Crossing the river was the main difficulty,” he said. “We’re facing sniper fire and suicide bombers who are trying to slow our advance, we’re dealing with them with air force support.”<\/p>\n
If the attack to capture Ramadi succeeds, it will be the second major city after Tikrit to be retaken from Islamic State in Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yeah, it’s a little harder to take those cities back than it is to defend them properly in the first place. <\/p>\n
According to the article, the US has warned Iraq to avoid using Iranian forces in the assault to avoid Sunni-Shi’ite sectarian violence. That makes no sense to me. Any kind of violence that results in the deaths of ISIS forces is good, sectarian or otherwise. That’s why we won’t be successful anytime soon in Iraq and Syria – the touchy-feely way of fighting a war isn’t conducive to victory over in that region of the world. The Iranians aren’t hindered by their rules of engagement and they’d be as ruthless as the ISIS fighters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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