Without giving specifics, Abadi added, “We are coming to liberate Mosul, which will be the fatal blow to Daesh”.
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Ramadi, the Anbar provincial capital, fell to IS in May, marking a major setback for Iraqi forces and the U.S.-led campaign.
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In battles since then, Iraq’s armed forces had operated mainly in a supporting role beside Iranian-backed Shi’ite militias. Iraq’s national television announced Monday tha Iraqi soldiers raised the national flag on the governmental complex.
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Iraqi forces worked Tuesday to clear Islamic State fighters from Ramadi, defusing and clearing bombs from streets and buildings as sporadic clashes took place on the outskirts of the city. “But Gen. Ismail al-Mahlawi, head of military operations in Anbar, quickly clarified that Iraqi forces had only retaken the government complex and that parts of the city remained under IS control”.
Iraqi state TV is showing troops waving flags and brandishing machine guns in Ramadi.
Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi has said so-called Islamic State (IS) will be ousted from the country, after government forces recaptured Ramadi.
ISIS forces took control of Fallujah at the beginning of 2014 and formally seized control of Ramadi in May of this year.
Iraqi army spokesman Yahya Rasool opined that, the military had to depend on the powerful Shiite militias in the past, but there is no such need now. Anbar, including Ramadi, was a major focus of that campaign at the height of the 2003-2011 USA war in Iraq. The expulsion of ISIS militants from Ramadi is seen as a symbolic achievement for the Iraqi army, after it suffered a humiliating defeat in May. “These barbaric terrorists have lost 30 percent of the territory they once held in Iraq”, Hammond said in a statement.
Col. Steve Warren, a spokesman in Baghdad for the US military told the AP that “today’s success is a proud moment for Iraq”. Iraqi counterterrorism agency spokesperson Sabah Al Noamani said recapturing the governmental complex amounts to a defeat of IS in Ramadi. “We will continue to stand with the Iraqi people until Daesh is defeated”.
President Barack Obama – who is now in Hawaii for the Christmas holidays – was also briefed Monday on the progress made in Ramadi, a White House statement said.
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Commending the Iraqi government, US Secretary of State John Kerry said dislodging Islamic State from areas it has occupied is a central part of Iraq’s security strategy, but it is also vital to rebuild and stabilise the areas that have been liberated.
