raq will deploy its air force to retake the Fallujah dam after it was captured by armed groups who cut off water supplies to several parts of the country, an MP said Wednesday. “Security forces might launch an operation – tonight or within the next few days – to reopen the Fallujah dam, seized by the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) group, which cut off [water] supplies to much of the southern and central provinces,” Hassan al-Sanid, head of parliament’s security committee, told Anadolu Agency. “The operation will employ aircraft to conduct limited strikes on ISIL hideouts,” he added. “The ISIL hopes to flood Fallujah with water during the [annual] inundation of the Euphrates River… and cut off water to the southern and central provinces,” al-Sanid asserted. Iraqi government troops have been pursuing ISIL militants – who the government says […]