Consumed by Islamic State, Iraq's Anbar province a key battleground again
October 21, 2014 at 10:46 AM EDT
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - In recent weeks, the world has watched the battle to save Syria’s border town of Kobani from Islamic State. But the radical jihadists have for longer been engulfing another strategically more vital target - Iraq’s western Anbar province and its road to Baghdad.
