Militants surround Iraqi base in west Iraq; incident exposes army weakness
 

By Raheem Salman, Ahmed Rasheed and Yara Bayoumy BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Around 200 Iraqi soldiers were trapped in an army camp in western Iraq on Wednesday, besieged by Islamic State militants who routed hapless army forces in a raid on a base close to Baghdad at the weekend. A soldier cornered in the camp said food, ******* and ammunition were running short, with forces sent to rescue them struggling to clear a route. ...

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