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Sunni Insurrection Reported in Islamic State-Occupied Fallujah, Iraq
(Washington Post) Loveday Morris and Mustafa Salim - The Islamic State deployed snipers on rooftops in Fallujah on Saturday in an attempt to quell an insurrection by Sunni tribesmen, Iraqi officials said, a flare-up that appears to indicate the group's weakening grip on a city it has controlled for more than two years. Tribesmen have attacked checkpoints and an Islamic State building during three days of sporadic fighting. Some tribal fighters are pinned down in the Jolan neighborhood, said Sheikh Majeed al-Juraisi, a tribal leader from Fallujah. "Time is running out very quickly, and if there is no intervention by the government or the Americans, then there will be a massacre."