Iraqi forces kill dozens of #jihadists in #Anbar: official
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Dozens of anti-government fighters died in two days of battles with government forces in a city west of #Iraq's capital, a security spokesman said, while violence elsewhere Monday killed at least 10 people. Violence has surged to a level not seen since 2008, when Iraq was just emerging from a brutal period of sectarian killings in which tens of thousands died. And shifting parts of Anbar provincial capital Ramadi and all of the city of Fallujah, to its east, have been held by fighters belonging to the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) for more than eight weeks. read more