Drone footage showed a luxury villa with a garden and swimming pool under siege.
About 60 black-clad armed personnel launched a fierce attack on the villa from four directions.
RPGs, grenades, machine guns, and automatic rifles—all sorts of individual combat equipment were in use. Surprisingly, though, more than sixty men couldn't break through...
A dozen Iraqis dressed in desert camo and black tactical vests held key points of the villa, repelling the armed assailants time after time.
Street fighting and breaching were tough battles for anyone, but the United States Army-trained Iraqi Special Forces had a particular knack for it.
The Iraqi Special Forces halted the black-clad attackers' onslaught, while another team of 12 were flanking the attackers from behind.
They too wore black combat gear but launched a surprise assault from the attackers' rear.