Strategic city falls to ISIS after months of fighting.
- Ramadi is in central Iraq. It has a population of ~200,000.
- ISIS and Iraqi forces have been fighting over it for months.
- Thursday night, ISIS launched a massive offensive.
- It included suicide bombers in cars with explosives.
- The fighting continued through the night and into Friday.
- ISIS’s black flag has been raised over the main gov’t building.
- They also captured the police headquarters.
- 114,000 people fled Ramadi to Baghdad, just 70 miles east.
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