Iraqi army regains control in Al-Anbar region
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The US Treasury Department building in Washington, DC. (Photo: Associated Press)
WASHINGTON DC (Kurdistan 24) – The US announced on Wednesday that it was imposing new sanctions on the Deputy Head of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), Abdul Aziz al-Muhammadawi, also known as Abu Fadak.
Muhammadawi replaced Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis as head of Kata’ib Hizbollah (KH), following Muhandis’ death last January in a US drone strike, targeting Gen. Qasim Soleimani, head of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC-QF.)
As explained in the State Department press release announcing the new sanctions, KH was established in 2006. US-led forces were then still fighting in Iraq, after toppling Saddam Hussein and his regime three years before.
the city center. they now raised their flag over the police headquarters and seem to have control of a key mosque there as well. the fighting is ongoing. people are fleeing and it s a symbolic city because it s the capital of anbar but it s an area the city hoped to exert influence and push isis out and find many sunnis living there who would welcome their return. instead now isis is raising their flag. bad for the baghdad government s narrative. so give us a sense about how things are going within iraq. is isis in control of too much territory? are iraqi forces making progress? what s the story there? certainly it looked like iraqi forces were doing well in terms of a mixture of shia militia and security forces. we saw isis in kobani in syria