The Captain's Journal takes a look today at the complicated battlefront that is Al Anbar province:

Anbar is a province where there is hope, but this hope seems a dim prospect when torture houses are still in existence. Anbar is still a restive place, with corruption a way of life, the Syrian border still porous, suicide bombers still crossing into Iraq, and Mujahideen fighters still active in the cities.

Learn a little more about this complex and dangerous place, and what is being done to secure it - Read the rest.