Topic: Iraq Military Asks Residents of ISIS-Controlled Ramadi to Leave City (Read 193 times)
December 20, 2015, 11:10:20 AM
This will not be practical. The Islamic State normally doesn't allow the civilians living in their areas to leave to the safer areas, as they hope to use them as human shields. The ISIS is infamous for using even hospitals and kindergartens in the areas which they control, to store ammunition and to launch rocket and mortar attacks.
December 20, 2015, 10:53:43 AM
BAGHDAD — Iraqi military planes dropped leaflets on Sunday on Ramadi, asking residents to leave within 72 hours the western city which is under the control of Islamic State militants, an army spokesman said."It is an indication that a major military operation to retake the city center will start soon," one officer said on condition of anonymity.
The leaflets indicated safe routes for civilians to exit the city and asked them to carry proper identification documents, joint operations spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Rasool told Reuters by phone. "All security forces were instructed on how to deal with civilian approaching them."
Last week Iraqi security forces said they had made advances on two fronts in Ramadi, clearing Islamic State militants from a military command base and the sprawling neighborhood of al-Taamim on the western rim of the city that they captured in May. Iraqi intelligence estimates the number of Islamic State fighters that are entrenched in the centre of Ramadi, capital of the Sunni Anbar province, at between 250 and 300.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2015/12/20/world/middleeast/20reuters-mideast-crisis-iraq-ramadi.html?ref=world
The leaflets indicated safe routes for civilians to exit the city and asked them to carry proper identification documents, joint operations spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Rasool told Reuters by phone. "All security forces were instructed on how to deal with civilian approaching them."
Last week Iraqi security forces said they had made advances on two fronts in Ramadi, clearing Islamic State militants from a military command base and the sprawling neighborhood of al-Taamim on the western rim of the city that they captured in May. Iraqi intelligence estimates the number of Islamic State fighters that are entrenched in the centre of Ramadi, capital of the Sunni Anbar province, at between 250 and 300.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2015/12/20/world/middleeast/20reuters-mideast-crisis-iraq-ramadi.html?ref=world
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