Al-Abadi visited Ramadi after his forces drove out Islamic State fighters.
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Sabah Karhot, the head of Anbar’s provincial council, said as much as 80 percent of Ramadi has been destroyed in the battles.
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Yet local government officials said the capture of Ramadi, the largest Sunni city regained from Daesh, had weakened the militants’ morale. Al-Masdar News reported that ISIS said it captured 11 army bases, which the Iraqi army has said is false.
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Months of fighting in Ramadi have caused extensive destruction, officials said Wednesday, warning that it was too soon for civilians to return to the Iraqi city after its recapture from jihadists.
Iraqi forces may face a big battle near Baghdad before they can try to retake the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul: Falluja, a long-time bastion of Sunni Muslim jihadists at the capital’s western gates.
Iraqi and Kurdish forces have now pushed ISIS out of four cities and reportedly reclaimed about 40 percent of the territory lost to ISIS in recent months.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday called Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to congratulate him on the success of the Iraqi security forces in fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), calling the liberation of the city of Ramadi an important victory. “We only saw their hands and their legs”. “Me, my husband and my children were running together with other families, around 15 in all”, she recalled, using an acronym for Islamic State.
“I saw them whipping people in the market”.
“For all of them at least the span has dropped”, he said, adding that he estimated it would take at least weeks to fix them.
The retaking of Ramadi recommended Abadi’s system of substantial U.S. air support while sidelining the Shi’ite volunteer armies could be effective. “We were praying that ISIS would just run away and leave us alone, but they tried to take us with them”. Most regional and world powers have joined the battle against them, often backing rival groups in complex, multi-sided civil wars in both Iraq and Syria that make it hard to achieve worldwide unity.
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VADM Johnston said SOTG-I has been providing training assistance to 1st ISOF Brigade for over a year including advanced skill sets needed in the Special Operations environment, such as tactics, medical aid and counter improvised explosive device skills.
