Success in Fallujah will deal a blow to the terrorists in Iraq, says US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
Iraqi PM ordered troops to end rebellion before elections in January.
The devastation caused by the IS forces is extensive. There are bombed out buildings, crushed cars and explosives that were being lined up to be used inside a school.
After more than a week of fighting the US army has occupied only a small portion of the town.\n\n
At least 15 people were killed and 22 wounded when insurgents attacked a police station and a government building in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, on Saturday, police and hospital officials said.
After the US occupation of Iraq, Fallujah became the launching pad of terrorist strikes in the rest of Iraq. Only after the US ruthlessly pacified Fallujah and destroyed the terrorist launching pads there, did it start making progress in its counter-insurgency operations in the rest of the Sunni areas of Iraq. The NATO forces will continue to bleed in Afghanistan and the jihadi virus will continue to spread in Pakistan unless FATA is similarly quelled
The tribals, many of whose children, particularly girls, were killed during the raid, have hit back with ferocious vengeance at the Pakistan Army, paramilitary forces and the police deployed in the Pashtun belt as well as outside.
The Islamic State has also seen a decline in its primary revenue sources
The government on Wednesday denied receiving any threat from Iraqi insurgent group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
The suicide car bombing on Sunday, which ripped through a crowded shopping area and sparked fires in nearby buildings, also wounded more than 200 people, security and medical officials said.
The killing was aimed at deterring South Korea from sending additional troops to Iraq to assist US soldiers.
The incident occurred on the first anniversary of Saddam Hussein's capture.
The incident occurred early Monday as the guardsmen queued up outside the station to collect their salary at the police station near Ramadi, some 150 km west of Baghdad.
The two men were dragged out of their cars and dismembered with shovels by an angry crowd.
US Special Forces have moved into Syria's Raqqa area and taking the fight to the terror group.
Reports indicate that the US may hand over Fallujah to the newly formed Iraqi army.
They were released late Monday night and their health and spiritual conditions are generally stable, a foreign ministry spokesman said.
A US jet has bombed a mosque in Fallujah, killing at least 40 inside.
They want compensation for the families of the Iraqis who died fighting American troops in Fallujah and the release of all Iraqis held in US and Kuwaiti jails.
The seven Chinese entered Iraq via Jordan on Sunday morning and were most probably abducted in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, Xinhua news agency quoted a Chinese diplomat as saying.
Twenty-one were wounded when the CH-47 Chinook crashed into a field.
A truck driver in Kuwait says they have no information about the megotiations on to free the Indian hostages.
A local court on Friday allowed National Investigation Agency to seek details of the conversations and chats carried out by the alleged ISIS `recruit' Arif Majeed through the telecommunication apps Skype and Tango.
Militants attacked an outdoor market on Sunday in eastern Baghdad, killing at least 24 people and wounding dozens, officials said.
The 23-year-old youth from Kalyan in neighbouring Thane landed in Mumbai on November 28 last year after returning from IS.
After a month-long buildup, the last urban stronghold of Islamic State in Iraq has for several days been almost completely surrounded by a 30,000-strong force.
The Lashkar poses a huge threat to India and its nexus with the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq is worrying, warn intelligence sources. Vicky Nanjappa reports
A special National Investigation Agency court on Saturday remanded alleged Islamic State recruit Arif Majeed in the probe agency's custody till December 8, observing that his custodial interrogation was necessary.
Arif Majeed (23) from neighbouring Kalyan, who until now was believed to have been killed while fighting for militant group ISIS in Syria, was on Friday night arrested hours after he landed in Mumbai.
'It was one thing for me to bear his physical and verbal abuses. But a few months ago, he began to stay out longer. New smells came from his clothes.' 'My fears were confirmed when I awoke one night and noticed him on the phone, talking and acting dirty.' A heart-wrenching excerpt from Namit Arora's Love And Loathing In Silicon Valley: A Novel.
The rankings were prepared after examining the volume of terrorist and rebel alerts, messaging traffic, videos, photos, incidents and the number of killed and injured in a country over the past 30 days.
The US and its allies must evolve a more comprehensive long-term plan to defeat the new danger that the caliphate poses to the world order. And India too must do its bit for course correction, says strategic expert Gurmeet Kanwal.
Lieutenant General J F R Jacob, Chief of Staff, Eastern Army Command during the 1971 war, revealed how, armed with only a draft surrender document and an aide, he made the Pakistani army led by Lieutenant General A A K Niazi surrender.
Lieutenant General J F R Jacob, Chief of Staff, Eastern Army Command during the 1971 war, revealed how, armed with only a draft surrender document and an aide, he made the Pakistani army led by Lieutenant General A A K Niazi surrender.
Lieutenant General J F R Jacob, Chief of Staff, Eastern Army Command during the 1971 war, revealed how, armed with only a draft surrender document and an aide, he made the Pakistani army led by Lieutenant General A A K Niazi surrender.
Lieutenant General J F R Jacob, Chief of Staff, Eastern Army Command during the 1971 war, revealed how, armed with only a draft surrender document and an aide, he made the Pakistani army led by Lieutenant General A A K Niazi surrender.
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