Graves near the thai border. Barack obama speaks out for Washington Post reporter but iran puts him on trial for spying. Hello, iraq has launched a military operation to try to retake Anbar Province from isil. Shia militias involved in the operation, which some fear could raise tensions. Anbar is a large, mostly sunni province in iraqs west. Isil took control of ramadi the provinces capitol last week sending iraqi troops running. But ramadis lies just 150 kilometers from the capitol. Reporter Security Forces gather preparing to retake ramadi which tell to Islamic State of iraq and the levant more than a week ago. Its likely to be a long operation. There are reports of isil fighters preparing to meet government Security Forces. They will lead the operation with backing from shia militia, many of which are supported by iran and air strikes from a coalition of countries lead by the United States. The iraqi army is also gearing up with other operations with isil in control of border crossi
Three suicide car bombers have launched attacks as iraqs military begins operation to try and retake Anbar Province from i. S. I. L. And shia malitia are involved in the operation which some say could raise sectarian tensions and anbar is a large mostly sunni province in the west and took control of ramadi the capitol last week sending iraqi troops running and rampty is 115 kilometers from the capitol baghdad and we are in baghdad and joins us now and what is going to be different about this operation to retake anbar as opposed to the fact it fell in the first place, what is going to be different . Well what they are doing is pumping in a lot more resources than they have done previously and a lot more coordination between all of the various different forces and lets look at what different forces we have. We have the regular iraqi army taking part and shia malitias who were supported by iran and iran supporters and Coalition Air strikes led by the u. S. And we have a situation where ir