Abdul Rahman Ismail, an Iraqi soldier who has been targeted by Islamic State militants who… Islamic State gunmen have fired on civilians fleeing Fallujah, Iraqi officials said Monday, as fighting entered a third week with Iraqi government forces dug in on the southern outskirts of the militant-held city. Islamic State wants human shields inside Fallujah, said Khalid al-Alwani, so it is seeking to stop any of the estimated 50,000 civilians trapped in the city from escaping, particularly by fording the Euphrates river. “This is why when people tried to cross the Euphrates, Daesh militants shot and killed them,” said Mr. Alwani, a lawmaker from the besieged city, using the Arabic acronym for the Sunni Muslim extremist group. A Sunni Muslim parliamentary bloc on Monday urged Haider al-Abadi, the prime minister of Iraq’s Shiite-dominated government, to use police boats to help fleeing families cross the river, which runs just west […]