Ahli-ahli tentera kerajaan Iraq merayakan pada tank dengan bendera yang
dirampas daripada kumpulan Negara Islam (IS) selepas mereka mengambil semula
kawasan dari jihadis itu pada 2 April 2016 di perkampungan Al-Mamoura, dekat
Heet di wilayah barat Anbar (Members of Iraqi government forces celebrate on a
tank with a seized flag of the Islamic State group (IS) after they retook an
area from its jihadists on April 2, 2016 in the village of Al-Mamoura, near
Heet in the western province of Anbar)© Moadh Al-Dulaimi/AFP
JamaliahYusofYacob - Sekurang-kurangnya 1,500 banduan telah dibebaskan oleh tentera Iraq dari
penjara bawah tanah Negara Islam (IS), kata pegawai Iraq. penjara itu ditemui
semasa operasi untuk merebut kembali bandar Heet dari golongan pelampau di
wilayah Anbar.
"Semasa kemaraan mereka untuk membebaskan dan membersihkan bandar
Heet dari Negara Islam (IS, juga dikenali sebagai ISIS/ISIL), pasukan
keselamatan menemui penjara yang besar," kata polis, Kolonel Fadhel
al-Nimrawi, seperti yang dipetik oleh AFP.
Beliau berkata ia adalah satu penjara"bawah tanah", yang
diadakan kira-kira 1,500 orang. Bilangan itu juga disahkan oleh Malallah
al-Obeidi, seorang pegawai tempatan di wilayah Anbar. Beliau berkata majoriti
daripada tahanan adalah orang awam.
Pekan ini jatuh kepada militan IS pada bulan Oktober 2014 dan telah
dibebaskan Februari ini semasa serangan tentera Iraq yang sedang berlangsung.
1,500
prisoners, mostly civilians, freed
from ISIS prison dungeon in IRAQ . . .
At least 1,500 prisoners have been liberated
by Iraqi forces from an underground Islamic State prison, Iraqi officials said.
The jail was found during an operation to retake the town of Heet from the
extremists in Anbar province.
“During their advance to liberate and clear
the town of Heet from Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIS/ISIL), security
forces discovered a large prison,” police Colonel Fadhel al-Nimrawi said, as
cited by AFP.
He added it was an “underground” jail, which
held about 1,500 people. The numbers were also confirmed by Malallah al-Obeidi,
a local official in Anbar province. He said the majority of the prisoners were
civilians.
The town fell to IS militants in October 2014
and was liberated this February during the ongoing Iraqi Army offensive.
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ADALAH muncul di Iraq pada tahun 2013 sebagai
sekutu Al-Qaeda. Pada tahun 2014, pengganas menyerang wilayah Kurdis-diadakan
di utara Iraq dan merampas wilayah di kawasan tengah Sunni Iraq, termasuk Mosul
dan Tikrit. Pada Ogos 2014, ADALAH telah merampas hampir 1/3 daripada negara
ini.
Militan mengawal sebahagian besar Fallujah di
wilayah Anbar. Apabila tempat yang makmur digelar "bandar masjid", ia
kini dilihat sepenuhnya ditinggalkan sejak militan IS mengambil alih pada
Januari 2014.
Puluhan penduduk tempatan telah dibunuh, dan
ramai daripada mereka telah mati kebuluran. Ramadi, ibu kota wilayah Anbar,
juga telah dirampas oleh militan IS Mei 2015 selepas kira-kira seminggu
pertempuran dengan tentera kerajaan, tetapi tentera Iraq berjaya sebahagiannya
membebaskannya pada bulan Disember.
IS emerged in Iraq in 2013 as an Al-Qaeda
affiliate. In 2014, the terror cell attacked Kurdish-held territory in northern
Iraq and seized territories in Iraq’s Sunni heartland, including Mosul and
Tikrit. By August of 2014, IS had seized nearly a third of the country.
The militants control large parts of Fallujah
in Anbar province. Once a prosperous place dubbed the “city of mosques”, it now
appears to be completely deserted since IS militants took control in January
2014.
Scores of local residents have been killed,
and many of them have starved to death. Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province,
was also seized by IS militants in May 2015 after about a week of fighting with
government forces, but the Iraqi military managed to partially liberate it in
December.
