The strategic victory is a rare advancement of the Iraqi armed forces, which retreated in droves from much of the territory that Islamic State raided in 2014 and now controls in its sovereign borders. Ramadi and nearby Fallujah, which is controlled by IS, saw some of the heaviest fighting of the eight-year USA intervention in Iraq.
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“If 2015 was the year of liberation, 2016, God willing, will be the year of the great victory and the year of the final victory and the end of the presence of Daesh on Iraqi soil and their final great defeat”. They have said most residents were evacuated before the assault.
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Numani told AFP that “our forces will enter in the coming hours”, saying that roadside bombs and booby traps planted by IS militants on the perimeter of the complex needed to be cleared first.
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For its part, the United States is leading a coalition of nations in airstrikes against IS meant to aid Iraqi troops and Kurdish fighters who are battling the terror group.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said the coalition would continue to support Iraqi forces as Ramadi was stabilised. Pockets of Ramadi remain under siege and Iraqi military commander Maj.
Ramadi, a predominantly Sunni Arab city, fell to ISIS in May, a major setback in the country’s effort to contain the terror group.
However, U.S. defense officials said Monday’s victory was as important symbolically and politically as it was militarily.
But British military operations still mostly focused their attention in neighbouring Iraq.
Smoke rises over destroyed Islamic State positions following a U.S.-led coalition airstrike, as Iraqi security forces enter the heavily damaged downtown Ramadi, about west of Baghdad, Iraq, on Sunday, Dec. 27.
ISLAMIC State’s loss of Ramadi to Iraqi forces is a “significant blow” to the extremists, Philip Hammond said as he hailed the “key role” played by the RAF.
Officials did not give any immediate death tolls for the battle.
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“That support will continue as the mission in Ramadi is completed and we prepare for post-conflict stabilization”. But it made slow progress, mainly because the government chose not to use the powerful Shia-dominated paramilitary force that helped it regain the mainly Sunni northern city of Tikrit, to avoid increasing sectarian tensions. “This success belongs to them as well, and we will all work together to defeat our common enemy”.
