{"id":9682,"date":"2014-06-30T18:47:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T18:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=9682"},"modified":"2014-06-30T18:47:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T18:47:38","slug":"isil-militants-flee-salaheddin-en-masse-iraqi-army-advances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/isil-militants-flee-salaheddin-en-masse-iraqi-army-advances\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIL militants flee Salaheddin en masse, Iraqi army advances"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lead\" style=\"color: #000000;\">The head of the Samarra Special Operation Command says militants from the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group are escaping en masse from Salaheddin province as Iraqi troops score more victories in their fight against ISIL terrorists.<\/div>\n<div class=\"body\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Iraqi security forces have won great victories against ISIL terrorists in Salaheddin province. The terrorists suffered great losses and a large number of them are fleeing the province,&#8221; Lt-Gen Sabah al-Fatlawi said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Scores of terrorists were killed in heavy battles with the army forces in Tikrit, al-Fatlawi added.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The head of the Samarra Special Operation Command\u00a0added that Iraqi forces pushed ISIL terrorists out of most parts of Tikrit, retaking full control of a major military base in Salaheddin province.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Iraqi forces have gained the upper hand against the ISIL terrorists and are advancing on the city of Tikrit, a provincial official said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A security source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that a senior member of the ISIL terrorist group was also\u00a0killed in the northern city of Kirkuk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.alalam.ir\/news\/1607149\">Al Alam\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the Samarra Special Operation Command says militants from the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group are escaping en masse from Salaheddin province as Iraqi troops score more victories in their fight against ISIL terrorists. &#8220;Iraqi security forces have won great victories against ISIL terrorists in Salaheddin province. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[187,597,50,676,905,349,889,130,163],"class_list":["post-9682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research","tag-army","tag-attacks","tag-iraq-2","tag-isil","tag-isis","tag-middle-east-2","tag-samarra","tag-terrorists","tag-ticker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9682","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=9682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9684,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9682\/revisions\/9684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}