A member of the Iraqi security forces raise the Iraqi flag in the Anbar police headquarters after their entry into the center of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s Anbar province, about 110 kilometers west of Baghdad, Dec. 28, 2015.
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Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the victory was a step towards the next campaign to liberate the northern city of Mosul in 2016.
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The next target for the Iraqi government could be recapturing Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city.
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The troops have been fighting for months to retake key cities and towns in Anbar, Iraq’s largest province, from IS militants who have seized most of Anbar and tried to advance towards Baghdad.
State TV on Monday showed pictures of soldiers in Ramadi firing their guns in the air and publicly slaughtering a sheep in celebration. The country’s striped flag in black, white and red colours was seen everywhere, with the symbolic moment coming when it was raised once more over the main government complex which had become ISIS’ stronghold in the city.
Col. Steve Warren, a USA military spokesman in Baghdad, said in a different statement that the U.S.-led coalition fired more than 630 airstrikes to help Iraqi forces advance on Ramadi.
Troops finally captured the government compound on Sunday, flushing out or killing IS fighters and suicide bombers who had been holding out in its buildings.
But their Kurdish counterparts insist that the Peshmerga forces will only play an assisting role in any offensive to recapture the city.
Brig Gen al-Belawi says fighters remain mainly in the eastern neighbourhoods of Sijariya and Sufiya.
The operation to reach the center of Ramadi was a significant milestone on the path to clear ISIL from the historic city and the overall campaign to defeat the terrorist group across Iraq, according to a statement released by Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve officials today. Unfortunately, it also gave Islamic State forces plenty of time to rig the city with homemade explosives and set up snipers’ nests, and it may now take weeks to clean out the last pockets of resistance.
Ramadi and Fallujah, Sunni Arab cities where distrust of the Shiite-led government runs deep, were major bastions of the insurgency in the years after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
US President Barack Obama, vacationing in Hawaii with his family, received an update on Monday on the Iraqi forces’ progress in Ramadi, the White House said.
Located just 60 miles from the capital Baghdad, Ramadi had come to symbolise the fluctuating fortunes of the Iraqi government as it battles to curb the Isil threat.
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The battle against the group in both Syria and Iraq has since drawn in most global and regional powers, often with competing allies on the ground in multi-sided civil wars.
