{"id":9386,"date":"2014-06-15T16:59:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T16:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=9386"},"modified":"2014-06-15T16:59:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T16:59:58","slug":"isil-convoy-hit-in-samarra-200-vehicles-destroyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/isil-convoy-hit-in-samarra-200-vehicles-destroyed\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIL convoy hit in Samarra, 200 vehicles destroyed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iraqi troops have managed to launch a massive operation against a large number of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants and destroyed a convoy of at least 200 vehicles belonging to ISIL near city of Samarra, Al-Alam reports.<\/p>\n

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According to Al-Alam reporter, Iraq’s elite counter-terrorism forces backed by artillery launched a massive operation on Friday evening and completely dismissed the armed militants from Samarra.<\/p>\n

The city, located nearly 120 kilometers (74 miles) north of Baghdad, is home to the holy shrines of two Shia Imams and a major pilgrimage site visited by tens of millions of Muslims annually despite the tense security situation in the area.<\/p>\n

According to report, the Iraqi elite counter-terrorism forces are on their way to Mosul to restore security alongside the road connecting Ninava – Salahaddin provinces.<\/p>\n

According to security sources, the control of Salahaddin province has been regained totally by Iraqi security troops.<\/p>\n

The heavily armed militants entered the city from several directions earlier on Friday.<\/p>\n

Iraq is currently witnessing a wave of violence unprecedented in recent years.<\/p>\n

Besides Shiites senior authorities in Najaf, the Sunni muftis are also calling people to join military forces to push the ISIL militants back, Al-Alam reporter added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source: Al Alam<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iraqi troops have managed to launch a massive operation against a large number of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants and destroyed a convoy of at least 200 vehicles belonging to ISIL near city of Samarra, Al-Alam reports. According to Al-Alam reporter, Iraq’s elite counter-terrorism forces backed by artillery launched …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[597,50,676,905,349,130,163],"class_list":["post-9386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research","tag-attacks","tag-iraq-2","tag-isil","tag-isis","tag-middle-east-2","tag-terrorists","tag-ticker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9390,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9386\/revisions\/9390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}