“By controlling the complex this means that they have been defeated in Ramadi”, Sabah al-Numani, a spokesman for the force leading the fight on the government side, was quoted by Reuters as saying on December 27. Gen. Ahmed al-Belawi, told The Associated Press that the prime minister kicked off his tour with meetings with security and provincial officials. Troops have raised the Iraqi flag on top of a government complex in central Ramadi to signify their claim on the city.
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Pockets of jihadists may remain in parts of the city but the army said it had faced no resistance since IS fighters abandoned the flashpoint government complex on Sunday.
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US Secretary of State John Kerry said that ISIS has suffered a major blow in Ramadi. Al-Belawi says sporadic clashes are underway in outlying parts of the city. The Baghdad government was quick to announce a counter-offensive to retake the city but attempts repeatedly stalled. However, progress has been slowed as forces have encountered suicide bombers, snipers and booby traps and the government chose not to use the effective Shia-dominated paramilitary force that helped it to recapture Tikrit.
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Iraqi state TV was replaying Monday’s footage from Ramadi, showing troops, some waving Iraqi flags and others brandishing machine guns, chanting and dancing inside what it described as the government complex in central Ramadi.
IS extremists, who control significant territory in western and northern Iraq and in neighboring Syria, have declared a self-styled caliphate. “We are coming to liberate Mosul and it will be the fatal and final blow to Daesh”. Soldiers could be seen slaughtering sheep in celebration near heavily damaged buildings.
WASHINGTON – The US on Monday welcomed the Iraqi forces’ victory over the Islamic State group in the city of Ramadi.
Many of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s political rivals had questioned his strategy of excluding those groups and relying on the US-led coalition’s air power.
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Iraq’s second city of Mosul fell to the terrorist organisation in June 2014 and it is vital as it contains the largest population under IS control in either Syria or Iraq.
