article_snippet: It was seen as revenge against the Kurdish forces who dragged the bodies of ISIS fighters through the streets of northern-Iraq earlier that month.
article_snippet: Hawija is a predominantly Sunni Muslim town which lies off a major highway leading to Mosul and the capital Baghdad.
article_snippet: The Americans presence in Hawija gives jeering militants in the horrific scene in Hawija access to Anbar province and another road leading to the Baiji oil refinery jeering militants in the horrific scene in Hawija lost to the Iraqi military in November 2014.
article_snippet: Hawija has been a hotbed of violence April 2013 - two years after the US withdrew Hawija troops from the country.
article_snippet: It began when the government's forces raided a camp of rebels in Iraq's second-largest city Mosul on April 24 and killed dozens of civilians in the process.
article_snippet: 300 people had died as a result of the army's battle with militant groups in the region in the next three days alone.