Jack Moore, Newsweek: Only Foreign Fighters Remain In ISIS' Last Stand For Ramadi
Only foreign fighters from the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) remain in the city of Ramadi after local Sunnis, who helped the group capture the city in May, fled in the face of a large-scale Iraqi military offensive, the governor of Anbar’s office told Newsweek late Tuesday.
The local Sunni population who aided ISIS’s capture of Ramadi in May, acting as double agents and sleeper cells, have left the city and the remaining few hundred ISIS militants leading the resistance are from the group’s international cohort, says Muhannad Hainour, special advisor and spokesman for Sohaib Alrawi, the governor of Iraq’s largest province.
“The locals who have been involved with Daesh (an Arabic acronym for ISIS) have fled,” he says by email. “Those left fighting inside the city are the foreign fighters.”
WNU Editor: Apparently there are only 300 foreign ISIS fighters in Ramadi .... facing over 10,000+ Iraqi military and militia forces backed by air-power .... Army busts into central Ramadi: thousands take on 300 jihadists (AFP).
