Sunni Insurgency Shows Muscle Across Iraq
June 7, 2014
BAGHDAD — Militants stormed the grounds of a university in the restive western city of Ramadi early Saturday, forcing students and professors to flee under fire as government troops and the militants attacked each other with heavy weapons, witnesses said.
Officials said that some of the students at Anbar University were briefly held hostage by militants and then released. But two professors who were at the university said that the gunmen they encountered had in fact encouraged civilians to leave the grounds.