Is good afternoon and welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im Morgan Radford. Deadly sectarian violence continues to escalate in iraq from the capital to its western provinces. In baghdad today, another series of suspected sunni militant car bombs killed as many as 100 people. Meanwhile, battling Iraqi Security forces right near fallujah. Secretary of state john kerry said the u. S. Will support the Iraqi Government but wouldnt put any more troops on the ground. The Anbar Province is notorious for, slammic state of iraq and the levant are reportedly still in control of two key cities there. Al jazeeras imran khan has the story. The iraqi army is ready to go into fallujah and fight the group isil. Other tribes disagreed saying isil fighters were in fact protecting fallujah. The standoff is the indication of the standoff of sunni tribes and the shia led government. Now nouri al maliki, has the upper hand. The army provides the tribes with all the weapons they need against the terrorists, one o
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Growing unrest in iraq. The government says tonight it has retain the city of ramadi. The u. S. Will not send soldiers. Iraqs army is poised at the edge. Both witnessed some of the fiercest fighting in the nine year wawr in iraq. More from imran khan. The agreement to do so was hardfought. Local sunni tribes insisted they be part of other operation. Others gray, saying i. S. I. L. Group, now mime minister almaliki is pledged to are are attack. The army provides everything it needs in the weapon against terrorists. One to two days may you optimistic. Surgical air strikes against the i. S. I. L. Fighters but they are limited to the cities. Others on the border with syria getting prid of the fighters there may prove to be more challenging. Increasingly voal critics of the Prime Minister. We call on the government to meet demands of the people. Demands that are not related to terrorism by any means. If theres a further escalation of violence in iraq then worse things may happen. Especially
Well, lets start this news hour in syria. Most of the focus in recent days has been with what to do with the countrys chemical weapons. A car bomb has exploded on the outskirts of the capital damascus killing at least 20 people. The blast hit a government building east of the city center. Amateur pictures of what is said to be the site of that explosion. Turkey has closed one of its border crossings with syria after fighters linked with al qaeda took control of a border town and they captured from the free syrian rebels. Both sides are are fighting to topple president al assad and his forces. Lets go to correspondent nassar hadid who is managed to get to the southern syrian why city of darra. There is fighting going on in darra. Nasser i dont know if you can here us there in darra. Is there fighting going on right now . Yeah, yeah, of course i hear you very well. Today is a little bit cool here in darra, we have just can, comparing to yesterday and day before yesterday its little bit c
Implicated. Plus cop encounter. The officer who stopped his car for a football encounter with the boy tells us how the incident is changing his life. We begin tonight with a growing unrest in ukraine. This is a live look at kiev tonight. Thousands of antigovernment protestors are taking to the streets and battling with riot police. Jennifer tbleas is i greas glase capital of kiev. This remains a front line of this line of protestors and the police on the opposite side, with shield and riot gear. Theyre exchanging explosions. The protestors have been firing fireworks at the police lines and the Police Respond with flash grenades filled with kind of, trying to move the crowds back. It hasnt been very effective, thousands of protestors to come to support the protestors. The protestors say theyll do whatever they want, stay here as long as they can until they get whatever they want. Theyre making lots of noise making themselves heard so they know theyre here. Despite concessions from Vikto