ADVANCING
EAST AND WEST
{Indeed, those who disbelieve spend their
wealth to avert [people] from the way of Allah.
So they will spend it; then it will be for them a
[source of ] regret; then they will be overcome}
[Al-Anfāl: 36].
Despite forming a coalition of dozens of nations,
allying with their longtime regional foe – Iran –
whose militias refer to them as “the Great Satan,”
conducting a relentless bombing campaign in Iraq
and Shām, recruiting various Sahwah militias and
Marxist Kurdish factions, and spending billions
of dollars to wage media warfare, the crusaders
could only watch helplessly as the Islamic State
continued advancing in Iraq and Shām, expanding
its territory both East and West.
In the East, the city of ar-Ramādī – the capital
of al-Anbār – was liberated by the soldiers of the
Khilāfah in what amounted to a repeat of the
Safawī army’s embarrassing retreat in Mosul. The
residents of the city watched, and even recorded
video, as Safawī convoys drove past them fleeing
from the mujāhidīn’s advance. This occurred
after the mujāhidīn of the Khilāfah led a fierce
campaign dubbed “the Battle of Abū Muhannad
as-Suwaydāwī” during which they captured a
number of key areas and facilities in and around
the city, including the “Anbār Provincial Council”
building, the Anbār police administration
building, the Anbār operations command center,
The istishhādī Abū ‘Ammār al-Jazrāwī prior to his
attack on the Safawī government center in ar-Ramādī
The battle in ar-Ramādī
heats up
dabiq
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