Backed by airplanes, joint police and army forces launched a major military operation in Ramadi in western Anbar province, to expel Al-Qaeda militants, a source said. The military operation is still going on," he said, adding many posts of al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have been bombed. This came as thousands of civilians have fled Falluja, in Anbar, since last week after the Iraqi military intensified shelling. Source: MENA