Iraqi troops have retaken the city of Ramadi from ISIS, the country’s military said. “The Iraqi counter terrorism forces have raised the Iraqi flag over the government complex in Anbar”, joint operations spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Rasool said in a statement broadcast on state television.
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant fighters are putting up a tough fight in the militant-held city of Ramadi, slowing down the advance of Iraqi forces, a senior Iraqi commander said Sunday.
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Earlier on Monday, Operation Inherent Resolve spokesman Colonel Steve Warren confirmed that Iraq’s army had gained full control over the strategically important city of Ramadi that had been under Daesh control since May. IS fighters have retreated from about 70 percent of city, but still control the rest and government forces still don’t fully control numerous districts from which the IS fighters have retreated.
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Iraqi TV showed Iraqi soldiers celebrating what the government is calling the “liberation” of the city.
Several local officials said IS used civilians as human shields to escape the battle when it became clear their last stand in Ramadi was doomed.
Security officials said the forces still need to clear some pockets of insurgents in the city and its outskirts. It has roads into Jordan and Syria, and Anbar province is the heartland of Iraq’s Sunni Muslim population. The city was taken by IS militants in May in a major blow to the government.
“IS” pushed out government forces in May in an embarrassing defeat for Iraq’s beleaguered army after it collapsed previous year in Mosul, handing Iraq’s second largest city to “IS”.
“Victory will be attainable depending on how much we will be close to our religion”, al-Boudani said.
“The complex is under our complete control, there is no presence whatsoever of IS fighters in the complex”, Numani told Reuters. It has declared a caliphate in the areas under its control and imposed a harsh and violent interpretation of Islamic law.
He also vowed that his group will go ahead with the fight against Assad’s regime.
Since then, the battle against the group in both countries has drawn in most global and regional powers, often with competing allies on the ground in complex multi-sided civil wars. Washington had hoped that potentially decisive battle would take place in 2015 but it was pushed back after the fighters seized Ramadi. Anbar province, including Ramadi, was one of the main battlefields during that campaign at the height of the 2003-2011 U.S. Iraq war.
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