Three guesses as to the identity of the gunmen…it’s those guys who are “on the defeat again”…
Via France24:
Militants stormed a university filled with hundreds of students in Iraq’s restive Anbar province Saturday, briefly taking students hostage before withdrawing from the school amid gunfire, officials and witnesses said.
Early Saturday morning, gunmen killed three police officers on guard at the university’s gate, a police and a military official said. The gunmen then detained dozens of students inside a university dorm, the officials said. Sabah Karhout, the head of Anbar’s provincial council, told reporters that hundreds of students were inside the university compound when the attack started.
Iraqi security forces reportedly launched an assault on the university, which is one of the country’s largest, with 10,000 students. The BBC reported that the militants “retreated under fire.”
The attack on Anbar University comes as Islamic extremists and other anti-government militias have held parts of the nearby provincial capital of Ramadi and the city of Fallujah since December amid rising tensions between Sunni Muslims and the Shiite-led government in Baghdad.