Iraqi forces retake control of Anbar varsity, 9 militants killed
 

Baghdad, June 7 (IANS) Iraqi security forces Saturday recaptured the Anbar University campus in Iraq's western province of Anbar in a fierce clash that killed at least nine militants, a provincial police source said. Earlier in the day, dozens of gunmen stormed campus of Anbar University, located in the western edge of the provincial capital city of Ramadi with hundreds of students and teachers left trapped in the school buildings, Xinhua quoted the source as saying. Although it is still unclear who these attackers really are, the source said some of the armed men were believed to be associated with the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant, an al-Qaida breakaway group in Iraq. Ramadi is one of the two cities in Anbar that were seized by tribal and Sunni insurgents early this year.

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