RAMADI, Iraq, June 4 (UPI) -- Islamic State militants controlling a Ramadi, Iraq, dam are reducing the flow of water to government-held communities, officials said.
The city of Ramadi, seized in May by Islamic State (IS) forces, includes a massive dam supplying water to surrounding communities, and Anbar province council chief Sabah Karthot said IS "closed all the gates" of the dam to lower the water level of the Euphrates River and cut water supplies to the Khalidiyah and Habbaniyah areas to the east. The territory is among the last areas in the province held by government forces.