Pay attention kids as things heat up and IS gets closer to Baghdad. When the city is truly in danger you will see the obama regime jump through hoops to protect it. Obama will not act for reasons most would assume but to only protect our billion dollar embassy… or is it? The US has pulled out of other embassies in danger but why is it they are adding forces to this facility, which is more like a fortress? Has anyone asked why the price tag was a billion dollars? CIA listening post would be a better title don’t you think!
ISIS fighting Iraqi government forces ‘just one mile from Baghdad’
by John Hall | Daily Mail Online
Fierce fighting has been reported on the outskirts of Baghdad where ISIS militants are attempting to seize control of the Iraqi capital – despite ongoing Western airstrikes against the terror group.
The fighting is taking place just one mile to the west of the city, with government forces desperately trying to hold off the militants, who allegedly killed up to 1,000 soldiers during clashes yesterday.
ISIS have held a number of towns and villages close to the Iraqi capital since earlier in the year, when government troops melted away following a lightning advance in the west of the country – enabling the terrorist group to seize further swaths of territory for their so-called caliphate.
Reports that ISIS militants are now just one mile from Baghdad came from the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East – an organisation supporting the work of Canon Andrew White, vicar of the city’s St George’s Church, the only Anglican church in Iraq.
In a message posted on Facebook, the group said: ‘The Islamic State are now less than 2km away from entering Baghdad. They said it could never happen and now it almost has...more