Tag: Falluja

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES: US-led coalition aircraft waged a series of deadly strikes against Islamic State around the city of Falluja on Wednesday, US officials said, with one citing a preliminary estimate of at least 250 suspected fighters killed and at least 40 vehicles destroyed.

BAGHDAD: Iraq said on Monday it had made arrests as it investigates allegations that Shi'ite militiamen helping the army retake Falluja had executed dozens of Sunni Muslim men fleeing the city held by Islamic State.

CAMP TARIQ, IRAQ: Islamic State militants fought back vigorously overnight and parried an onslaught by the Iraqi army on a southern district of the city of Falluja, the group's bastion near Baghdad, officers said on Tuesday.