{"id":9435,"date":"2014-06-16T10:15:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T10:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=9435"},"modified":"2014-06-16T10:18:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T10:18:35","slug":"iraqi-army-retakes-salahuddin-from-isil-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/iraqi-army-retakes-salahuddin-from-isil-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Army retakes Salahuddin from ISIL terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mayor of Iraq’s city of Salahuddin has confirmed that the army retook large parts of the city after it fell to rebels from the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mayor Ahmed Abdullah said in a statement that the army had retaken the districts of Ad-Duluiya, Al-Ishaqi and Mu’tasim.<\/p>\n

He said the areas were retaken after government forces made agreements with local tribes and that talks are ongoing.<\/p>\n

Although this is yet to be verified by independent sources, the Salahuddin police headquarters stated that they had killed 9 terrorists in a raid on vehicles belonging to the ISIL. 21 gunmen had also been injured while many of their vehicles were burned.<\/p>\n

Clashes between the ISIL and the army continue after the former made gains in Ninevah, Salahuddin and Tikrit following the capture of Iraq’s second biggest city Mosul.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, at least seven members of the Kurdish security forces were killed in an airstrike in Iraq’s northeastern province of Diyala on Saturday, police said.<\/p>\n

The secretary general of the Kurdish security forces said however that only two people had died near the town of Jalawla in what he described as shelling.<\/p>\n

Both Iraqi and Kurdish sources said ISIL militants were also present in the area.<\/p>\n

Source: Al Manar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The mayor of Iraq’s city of Salahuddin has confirmed that the army retook large parts of the city after it fell to rebels from the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL). Mayor Ahmed Abdullah said in a statement that the army had retaken the districts of Ad-Duluiya, Al-Ishaqi and Mu’tasim. He said …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[162,941,938,676,952,163],"class_list":["post-9435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research","tag-headline","tag-iraqi-army","tag-iraqi-crisis","tag-isil","tag-salahuddin","tag-ticker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9435","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=9435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9439,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9435\/revisions\/9439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}