On national television, Iraq’s Prime Minister warned his forces were “coming to liberate Mosul next – and deal ISIS a fatal blow”.
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After Ramadi, A Look At What’s Next In The Fight Against ISIS
Abdel Ghani Al Assadi says that his men made sacrifices and many gave up their lives in the bitter battle against Islamic State. The Iraqi armed forces and the Shiite militia receive significant training and battlefield support from the Iranians.
The speaker of Iraq’s parliament was one of the first top officials to congratulate the security forces on their victory late on Sunday. Washington had hoped that a potentially decisive battle for that city would take place in 2015 but that effort was pushed back after the fighters seized Ramadi in May.
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Tikrit: Located 160km north of Baghdad, it was recaptured in April by Iraqi troops, police and Shi’ite-dominated paramilitaries.
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The issue then becomes why America is doing this, almost 13 years since its initial invasion of Iraq and four years after President George W. Bush agreed with the Iraqis that the United States would withdraw its forces.
Baiji lies at a major crossroads and its recapture was seen as key to offensives in Anbar and, later, Mosul.
Fallujah is the second major city in the Anbar province, an area that has always been the country’s center of strife. Warren declined to estimate when he believed the city could be declared fully under Iraqi control. The US-led coalition supported that process.
Meanwhile, it was reported that about 350 Syrian pro-government militia fighters and civilians from two besieged Shi’ite towns in north-western Syria boarded buses and ambul- ances bound for the Turkish border under a UN-brokered deal among warring parties, aid workers said.
But Denselow warns that the fact that “a relatively small number of ISIS fighters have been able to fend off a much larger force for so long with such a large level of destruction is a worrying portent of things to come”.
Lives back… Iraqis celebrate Ramadi being liberated from the Islamic State group.
About three or four soldiers have been killed every day since Iraqi forces launched their final push for the city, he said, largely by snipers and suicide bombers.
Iraqi forces, backed by US-led coalition airstrikes, had been slowed in Ramadi by explosives planted in streets and booby-trapped buildings.
Reports of Iraqi forces backed by coalition forces making gains in Ramadi had been making the rounds since last week.
Authorities have not provided casualty figures from the fighting or Ramadi.
“We will continue to support the government of Iraq as it re-establishes the security, governance and services the people of Ramadi will need as they return to their city”.
The BBC’s Thomas Fessy, who is in Ramadi, says the battle against IS has destroyed the urban landscape. Iraqi military forces on Monday retook a strategic government complex in the city of Ramadi fro…
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Retaking Mosul would effectively mark the end of the caliphate proclaimed by Islamic State in adjacent Sunni areas of Iraq and Syria, according to Zebari.
