By Kamal Naama RAMADI
Iraq (Reuters) -
Gunmen occupied a
university in Iraq's western province of Anbar on Saturday, taking
hundreds of
students and their professors
hostage on campus, security sources said. After fighting their way past guards overnight, the
Gunmen broke into Anbar
university in the provincial capital Ramadi, parts of which have been held by anti-government tribal groups and insurgents since the start of the year. The attack on the
university is the third brazen offensive in as many days by militants who have regained ground and momentum in
Iraq over the past year and this week overran districts in two other cities. Security forces surrounded the
university in Ramadi on Saturday and exchanged fire with the militants, who had planted bombs behind them and were patrolling the rooftops with sniper rifles.
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