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Strategic city falls to ISIS after months of fighting
ISIS CAPTURES RAMADI
• Ramadi is in central Iraq. It has a population of ~200,000.
• ISIS and Iraqi forces have been fighting over it for months.
• Thursday night, ISIS launched a massive offensive.
• It included suicide bombers in cars with explosives.
• The fighting continued through the night and into Friday.
• ISIS’s black flag has been raised over the main gov’t building.
• They also captured the police headquarters.
• 114,000 people fled Ramadi to Baghdad, just 70 miles east.