Anbar Governor Ahmed al-Dulaimi gave the militants until the weekend to surrender Up to 300,000 people have now been displaced by the fighting between Sunni militants and security forces in Iraq’s western province of Anbar, the UN says. Militants led by the jihadist Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) took over parts of the cities of Falluja and Ramadi in late December. Since then, troops and allied tribesmen have struggled to regain control. The number displaced by the unrest is the highest since the peak of the sectarian insurgency from 2006 to 2008. A further 1.1 million internally displaced people (IDPs) have still not returned to communities in Iraq wracked by violence since 2003. ‘Sustained hardship’ The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said some 50,000 families had fled their homes since clashes […]