Security forces break Iraq town's siege
 

Baghdad, Aug 31 (IANS) Iraqi security forces Sunday broke through to the town of Amerli which had remained under siege for more than two months by the Islamic State (IS) Sunni extremist organisation, security sources said. "The security forces managed to break the siege of Amerli as well as several nearby villages," military spokesman Qasim Atta told reporters without elaborating further. The IS militants escaped en masse as Iraqi troops and volunteers advanced towards Amerli, Atta said. The security forces, backed by thousands of Shia militiamen and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, moved into the town, some 90 km east of Salahudin province's capital Tikrit, a security source told Xinhua on condition of a**nymity.

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