Volunteers deployed in battle for Iraq city
Some 4,000 Iraqi volunteers are being airlifted to an embattled city west of Baghdad to help bolster government forces locked in a running battle with Sunni militants there.
Around 2,500 of the volunteers arrived in Ramadi, 115 kilometres (70 miles) west of the capital, on Friday and are to be joined by the remaining 1,500 on Saturday, said Gen Rasheed Flayeh, the commander of operations in Anbar province.
