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Iraqi forces in fierce battles with IS in Ramadi

But at the Cairo meeting, Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said Turkey has insisted on “using the term “redeployment”. Turkey, which deployed around 150 soldiers, said the troops are simply providing training to Kurdish groups fighting ISIS.

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In its final statement following the meeting, the Arab League council of foreign ministers expressed support for the Iraqi relevant procedures that seek withdrawal of the Turkish troops from its territories.


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“We stand as Arab countries along with Iraq and we call on Turkey to immediately withdraw its military forces from Iraq and respect the global border between the two countries”.


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“We are facing many obstacles, mostly snipers and auto bombs”, said one Iraqi fighter, Lt. Bashar Hussein, from a position in Dhubbat neighbourhood, just south of Hoz, according to a Agence France-Presse report. “Sovereignty is sovereignty, and the territories are one”, he said.

Iraqi forces started an attack on December 22 to dislodge ISIL militants from the center of Ramadi, the last district under their control in the city they had captured in May.

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says Iraqi forces will move to free the strategic northern city of Mosul once they have liberated Anbar’s provincial capital city of Ramadi from the Islamic State (Daesh). It would also represent a base of operations for future missions to take back the ISIS-held city of Fallujah which is around 70 miles east of Ramadi.

“Iraq is preoccupied with a war against the so-called Islamic State on several different fronts; there are also significant sectarian divisions within the country that affect the government and the Iraqi people”. Shi’ite militia units backed by Iran, which have played a major part in other government offensives, have been kept away from the battlefield in Ramadi to avoid angering Sunni Muslim residents.

Army commanders said on Wednesday the battle for Ramadi would take several days.

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“The liberation of dear Mosul will be achieved with the cooperation and unity of all Iraqis after the victory in Ramadi”, Abadi said in a statement on the state media website on Friday.

AFP  Iraq's counter-terrorism forces operate in Ramadi's Dhubbat area