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I.S.I.S captured, on Friday 04/24/2915, the  Tharthar Dam near Fallujah Anbar province and killed 127 Iraqi troops including a top army Brigadier, Hassan Abbas Toufan, Commander of the Iraqi No. 1 Division,   in attacks that show the militant group’s resilience despite battlefield setbacks elsewhere in Iraq.  The Associated Press reported Toufan was killed Friday in an ambush on his convoy involving an explosives-packed bulldozer.

The dam controls the flow of water from Tharthar and Habaniya lakes into the Tigris River and lies 98 kilometers (61 miles) west of Baghdad.

U.S. officials said intelligence reports suggest the extremists had opened at least one of the dam’s gates, although darkness has hampered efforts to determine how much flooding, if any, resulted.

The offensive demonstrates that Islamic State remains a threat in mostly Sunni Muslim Anbar province after being pushed out of Tikrit in neighboring Salahuddin province in 03/2015.

Ahmed al-Dulaimi, a tribal leader fighting Islamic State in Anbar, said by telephone that 40 soldiers were taken captive by the militants and he feared they would be executed. Islamic State also claimed responsibility for attacks Saturday on two separate border crossings into Anbar.

On Saturday 04/25/2015 the Jihadi coalition,  led by Jabhat al-Nusra,  captured the Northwestern Syrian town of Jisar al-Shughour, for the first time in the four-year-old conflict consolidating the Islamist grip on Northern Syria, on the border with Turkey and strengthening the threat on the Alawite enclave along the Syrian Mediterranean.

Summarizing the situation there is no sign that the Islamic State or al-Nusra front are in retreat but on the contrary.

 

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