#militants make gains in #Iraq city : police
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Smoke billows from a police car following clashes between Jihadists and Iraqi forces backed by tribesmen in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, West of Baghdad, on January 1, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Azhar Shallal) Smoke billows from a police car following clashes between Jihadists and Iraqi forces backed by tribesmen in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, West of Baghdad, on January 1, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Azhar Shallal)
Al-Qaeda-linked militants on Friday advanced into new areas of one major Iraqi city, as part of another remained outside the control of security forces, police said to AFP. Districts of Ramadi and Fallujah west of Baghdad have been held by militants for days, harking back to the years after the 2003 US-led illegal invasion (...)