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Unassailable fortress: Iraqi town survives 1.5 years under ISIS siege
Published time: 19 Jan, 2016 21:06
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Security forces and local tribes have joined efforts to turn the small Iraqi town of Barwanah into an unassailable fortress, which has survived a 1.5-year siege by Islamic State. They have delivered huge losses to the jihadists.
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Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) used over 300 vehicles, rigged with explosives, to crush the resistance of the Barwanah residents, but failed to succeed every time, Ali Farihat one of the local tribal leaders, told RT’s Arabic Channel.
“We’ve delivered them (IS) heavy losses in manpower and hardware. We’ve seized more than 50 cars and burned more than a hundred vehicles. We took some valuable weaponry from them,” Farihat said.
Barwanah is a small town which occupies an area of around three square kilometers, and most of its population is involved in agriculture.
People from the three local tribes had to abandon their farming tools and join the security forces in the fight against the terrorists.