Hundreds of Iraqi soldiers are missing and feared to be dead after a suicide mission in Iraq’s western Anbar province.
Five people, including three officers, survived the attack by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria on the Iraqi military’s base Monday, according to the Washington Post.
Between 300 and 500 military personnel are now missing and feared dead, kidnapped or hiding following the attack, the survivors have said — and the number could be higher.
If true, this would be the deadliest day for the Iraqi army since several divisions fell following the Islamic State’s capture of the northern city of Mosul in June.
The pressure is now on new Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to do something, whose opponents have already accused him of softly approaching terrorists.
“We called our leaders so many times. We called our commanders, we called members of parliament, but they just left us there to die,” First Lt. Haider Majid, one of the survivors, said.
