Baghdad, Sep 1 (IANS)
Iraqi security
forces Monday recaptured the
town of Sulaiman Beg in Salahudin province after more than two months of being under siege by the Islamic State (IS) Sunni extremist organisation, an official said. "The
town of Sulaiman Beg is under control of the combined
forces of
Iraqi army, Peshmerga (Kurdish force) and volunteers," the official told Xinhua. The
recapture of Sulaiman Beg came a day after the combined security
forces broke through to the
town of Amerli, some 90 km east of Tikrit, as well as several nearby villages after more than two months of being captured by the IS. The security forces, backed by thousands of Shia militiamen and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, moved in to the
town of Amerli under US and
Iraqi air support, and were involved in fierce clashes with the militants.
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