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ISIS fighters kill 500, capture major Iraqi city

Iraq:  Islamic State forces captured the western Iraqi city of Ramadi today after sending in a relentless wave of suicide bombers in a bloodbath that left at least 500 people dead.

The city fell after the Iraqi army fled Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s largest province of Anbar.

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