At least 27 airstrikes were carried out on ISIS targets around the city, in the latest development in a push to oust the militant group from Ramadi, which began on Tuesday.
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In a bid to retake major cities from the control of the Islamic State, colaition forces have launched an all out offensive against the militants in Ramadi, in an operation that will take several days, according to an Iraqi military statement.
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Al-Mahlawi added that his forces “need time” to dislodge the militants from the capital of Anbar province in the face of snipers and mined buildings. Fear of trapped civilians used as human shields by jihadists has slowed down their advance.
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“They’ve established a strong defence using improvised explosive devices as mine fields, booby traps, rigging entire houses to explode”.
“There are no major fights now”, said Brigadier General Ahmed al-Bilawi, a commander of the Anbar emergency police units. They targeted fighting positions; five command and control nodes; heavy machine guns and rockets; and blocked off access to terrain in Ramadi.
And 22 wounded soldiers were brought in early on Thursday, said a medic at Abu Ghraib hospital, west of Baghdad.
It said the suicide commando crept up on a police position in an area called Kilo 110 and killed several of the forces there before setting fire to the armoury.
Iraqi officials have conceded that their advance in Ramadi has been hampered by hidden explosives and Islamic State group counterattacks, but they denied they had suffered any major casualties Thursday.
Among them was 47-year-old Saad al-Dulaimi.
“We are facing many obstacles, mostly snipers and vehicle bombs”, said one CTS fighter, First Lieutenant Bashar Hussein, from a position in Dhubbat neighbourhood, just south of Hoz.
“The situation in town was very hard because there’s no food left in the shops”.
Sabah al-Noman, from Iraq’s elite counter-terrorism force, said after it had pushed into the centre of Ramadi that the city – 80 miles west of Baghdad – was expected to be cleared in 72 hours.
The ultimate aim for the government is to drive ISIL from Mosul, Iraq’s largest northern city, and Fallujah, which lies between Ramadi and Baghdad, as well as large areas of Syria – the core of what it has declared to be its caliphate.
Retaking the city would provide a welcome morale boost to the much-criticised military.
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It would also represent a launching point to take the ISIS-held city of Fallujah to the east of Ramadi.
