One of the biggest ever battles against ISIS is going on right now in Falluja

The Iraqi army stormed to the southern edge of Fallujah under US air support on Monday and captured a police station inside the city limits, launching a direct assault to retake one of the main strongholds of Islamic State militants.

 

A Reuters TV crew about a mile (about 1.5 km) from the city’s edge said explosions and gunfire were ripping through Naimiya, a largely rural district of Fallujah on its southern outskirts.

 

An elite military unit, the Rapid Response Team, seized the district’s police station at midday, state TV reported.

 

The unit advanced another mile northward, stopping about 500 meters (yards) from the al-Shuhada district, the southeastern part of city’s main built-up area, army officers said.

 

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