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The Iraqi army and thousands of Shiite militiamen on Tuesday prepared to fight Islamic State (IS) group insurgents who seized the Iraqi provincial capital Ramadi at the weekend in the biggest defeat for government forces in nearly a year. A column of 3,000 Shiite militia fighters had already assembled at a military base near the city Monday, preparing to take on IS group militants advancing in armoured vehicles from Ramadi, northwest of Baghdad, witnesses and a military officer said.
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