Iraq War in Anbar Province

Locals recounted grizzly details of a US-led coalition attack that reportedly killed at least 8 Iraqis Saturday, calling on American forces to leave the country. The Coalition said the incident is under investigation.

Members of the Islamic State terrorist group took as hostages at least 30 policemen in the city of Ramadhi, 100 km from Baghdad in central Iraq, the Al Jazeera television channel.

More than 1,500 schools have been damaged or destroyed as a result of the conflict in Iraq's troubled Anbar province alone, a spokesman said on August 3.
 

President Barack Obama is sending 450 additional US troops to help Iraqi forces seize back control of the western city of Ramadi from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadists.  

US warplanes have pushed back Islamic State fighters threatening Iraq key Haditha dam, witnesses have said.

Reuters quoted Sheik Ahmed Abu Risha, leader of a pro-Iraqi government paramilitary force in western Iraq, as saying Sunday's air strikes were very accurate and there was no collateral damage.

The US has launched a series of air strikes on Islamic State militants close to the vital Haditha dam in western Iraq, Sunday.

US officials said that while the Anbar Province dam remains in control of the Iraqis, the American offensive was an effort to beat back militants who have been trying to take over key dams across the country, including the Haditha complex.

The United States said it launched four air strikes against Islamic State militants threatening the Haditha Dam in western Iraq on Sept. 7, broadening its campaign against the fighters.
   
It was Washington's first offensive into Iraq's western Anbar province since it started air strikes on Islamic State forces in the north of the country in August.
   

An interview of Novinite.com with Mohamed Khalaf, an Iraqi-born journalist and correspondent in Bulgaria of a Kuwaiti newspaper, on the Sunni militant group called Islamic State (IS) acting in Iraq and Syria.

Shelling west of Baghdad killed the commander of the Iraqi army's 6th division on Monday, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's security spokesman said.