Fighting flared across Iraq on Sunday as government and Kurdish forces stepped up efforts to dislodge Isis fighters from strongholds in Fallujah and around Mosul.
The Iraqi army, backed by special forces, Shia militias and coalition air power, deployed around the northern, western and southern approaches to the Sunni city of Fallujah. The city was taken by Isis in January 2014, months before the militant group’s rapid assault across Iraq.
Isis forces responded to the assault on the outskirts of Fallujah with suicide bombs to the north and a counter-attack in the south of the city that was repelled by helicopter gunships. Isis is also trying to retake the town of Hit, further north-west in the province of al-Anbar, which it lost this year.
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