ISIS seizes government HQ in Iraq's Ramadi

May 15, 2015 19:06

ISIS has launched a wide-scale attack on Iraqi security forces in Ramadi in an apparent attempt to take the rest of the key central Iraqi city, a provincial governor said Friday.

The ISIS offensive, which started Thursday night and continued into Friday, included suicide attacks with explosive-rigged cars near security posts in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, Anbar Gov. Suhaib Al-Rawi said.

Iraqi security forces were clashing with ISIS fighters inside the city on Friday.

Ramadi is just 70 miles (113 kilometers) west of Baghdad and in the middle of Iraq's Sunni heartland. ISIS is the Sunni extremist group that took over parts of Syria and Iraq -- including most of Anbar province -- for what it calls its Islamic caliphate.

ISIS has fought Iraqi security forces for control of Ramadi for months, since ISIS took parts of the city last year. Each side has since alternated gains and losses in territory.

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