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Humvees in a suicide attack. Iraqi soldiers attempted to hold off the IS convoy at the entrance as the survivors gathered into groups and retreated from the base, leaving it to be overrun
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General Commander of the Iraqi Armed Forces ordered on 18 September to send support and reinforcement to the besieged soldiers in Saqlawiyah, he also ordered to intensify the overflights on the bases of ISIS." While other military sources
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467:Turkish Sinjar airstrike
420:Nineveh Plains offensive
1311:Kidnapping in the 2010s
506:Major insurgent attacks
927:Camp Speicher massacre
879:Prime Minister of Iraq
874:by the Islamic State.
487:Iraqi–Kurdish conflict
291:Musab bin Umair mosque
215:Battles and operations
803:, 50 km west of
649:Foreign interventions
150:Casualties and losses
1144:Abdul-Hameed, Safa.
56:Al Anbar Governorate
1316:Mass murder in 2014
1306:Kidnappings in Iraq
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793:siege of Saqlawiyah
22:Siege of Saqlawiyah
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714:Christian genocide
1087:Morris, Loveday.
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517:1st Baghdad
204:(2013–2017)
71:IS victory
1255:Categories
1228:43°41′00″E
1225:33°23′47″N
1038:Al Sumaria
933:References
887:Saqlawiyah
867:Iraqi Army
851:Saqlawiyah
830:Saqlawiyah
799:(north of
797:Saqlawiyah
617:3rd Hillah
557:2nd Hillah
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512:1st Hillah
492:4th Kirkuk
462:4th Sinjar
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373:2nd Kirkuk
363:2nd Sinjar
358:1st Ramadi
351:2nd Tikrit
331:1st Tikrit
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301:Saqlawiyah
274:1st Sinjar
252:1st Kirkuk
111:Iraqi Army
79:and Sicher
77:Saqlawiyah
52:Saqlawiyah
1118:Erem News
982:Erem News
834:Jihadists
807:) by the
642:Nasiriyah
602:2nd Balad
582:1st Balad
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378:Al-Karmah
368:2nd Mosul
341:3rd Baiji
336:2nd Baiji
321:1st Baiji
284:Sharfadin
279:Mosul Dam
237:1st Mosul
220:1st Anbar
163:14 killed
1182:6 August
906:See also
877:The new
801:Fallujah
754:Timeline
532:Sharaban
472:Tal Afar
346:Dhuluiya
269:Makhmour
137:Strength
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691:Chammal
398:2nd Hīt
306:1st Hīt
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891:Sicher
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