Abadi has pledged to retake Mosul, 400 km (250 miles) north of Baghdad, next year and said this would deal a final blow to Islamic State.
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“We are coming to liberate Mosul and it will be the fatal and final blow to Daesh”, he added.
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The Ramadi battle was at least a partial vindication for Iraq’s army, which humiliated itself by abandoning Mosul as the Islamic State, a Sunni Muslim group, advanced. But military officials said insurgents were still holed up in various pockets of the city.
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In his first public transmission since May, he also said the group was surrounded by enemies and called on those overseas to join the fight in the Middle East.
IS militants still control an estimated 30 percent of the city, according to Gen. Ismail al-Mahlawi, head of military operations in Anbar province.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Wednesday ordered the immediate formation of a high-level committee including the Anbar governor and senior federal government officials to stabilize and rebuild Ramadi.
McCraw said that in one of the more heavily defended areas, Iraqi forces had found about 300 explosives planted along a 150-metre (150-yard) stretch south of the main government complex.
The battle for Ramadi was waged by the Iraqi military – rather than Shiite or Kurdish militias – with elite counterterrorism units advancing under the cover of coalition airstrikes and raising the Iraqi national flag over the main government complex in the provincial capital on Monday. But an Iraqi military commander, Brig.
“Analysts have also for a long time said that the problem of ISIS in Iraq and Syria won’t be resolved until there’s strong central governments in those places who can offer the people living under ISIS a better life than what they now have”.
On Sunday, Mohammed al-Bidhani, a spokesman for War Media Network affiliated with the Iraqi Defense Ministry, said that Daesh militants had fled government buildings.
“ISIL’s defeat in Ramadi is not an isolated event”, Kerry said.
As part of their training regimen, small groups of the Sunni fighters have been cycled through the front lines during the battle for Ramadi and then returned to the training site. Still, the victory is the clearest sign yet that the Islamic State, after laying claim to huge parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014, is losing momentum and in retreat.
In a televised speech Monday night, al-Abadi extolled what he described as the cooperative effort of “different affiliations and religions and sects” among Iraqis in routing Islamic State fighters from Ramadi.
In the centre of Ramadi, which lies on the Euphrates river, “there are five bridges in various states of destruction”, USA operations officer Major Michael Filanowski said on Wednesday.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi vowed Monday that all remaining IS-held areas in the country would be retaken by the end of 2016, including second city Mosul.
But Pierre-Jean Luizard, the director of research at the National Center for Scientific Research in France and the author of a recent book about the Islamic State, cautioned against seeing Ramadi as a turning point. The group exploits the anger of Iraq’s Sunni minority, which has been disenfranchised from Iraqi politics since Saddam Hussein was overthrown in 2003.
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Still, Daniel Byman, a Georgetown professor who studies global jihadi movements, said the campaign to retake Ramadi was a cause for cautious optimism. “It shows the Islamic State is facing real reversals on the ground”.
