Iraq looks to snuff out ISIL remnants in remote Anbar province
The vast Anbar desert stretches across almost a third of Iraq, 138,000 square-kilometres of no man's land to the country's west. Here, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group (ISIL, also known as ISIS) sleeper cells use the remote area's mountain ranges, valleys and caves to plan and launch their attacks from. The […]Osama Bin Javaid writes for Al Jazeera:
The vast Anbar desert stretches across almost a third of Iraq, 138,000 square-kilometres of no man's land to the country's west.
Here, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group (ISIL, also known as ISIS) sleeper cells use the remote area's mountain ranges, valleys and caves to plan and launch their attacks from.
The Iraqi military and US-led coalition are hesitant to give exact numbers but estimate that a few hundred fighters clustered in groups as small as two are all that remains of the group.
