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500 Sunni Tribesmen Join Anti-ISIL Fighters in Iraq’s Anbar

500 Sunni Iraqis from different tribes of the Western province of al-Anbar jointed the army and the popular forces to defend the country against the ISIL terrorist group.

Al-Mesri al-Youm news website quoted Colonel Mohammad Jaloub, one of the commanders of military operations against the ISIL in Anbar, as saying that the trainings of 500 Sunni Iraqis have ended.
According to him, the Sunni volunteers are from different tribes of Anbar province and have ended their trainings in al-Habaniya camp in Eastern Ramadi.

“The cadets will be supplied with necessary weapons by the Iraqi government in the next few days and they will be sent to the battlefront to drive out the ISIL from Anbar,” Jaloub said.

Sources in Iraq confirmed on Friday that the army’s operations against the ISIL terrorist group in al-Heitaoyen area in the Southern parts of Fallujah resulted in the killing of at least 7 Takfiri fighters.

“The first army division is advancing against the ISIL terrorists in al-Heitaoyen area near Fallujah in the Western province of Anbar,” the sources said.

The sources further added that at least 7 ISIL fighters were killed and tens more were wounded in the army operations

The ISIL Takfiri terrorists currently control shrinking swathes of Syria and Iraq. They have threatened all communities, including Shiites, Sunnis, Kurds, Christians, Ezadi Kurds and others, as they continue their atrocities in Iraq.

Senior Iraqi officials have blamed Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and some Persian Gulf Arab states for the growing terrorism in their country.

The ISIL has links with Saudi intelligence and is believed to be indirectly supported by the Israeli regime.

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