Keeping control, where to after Ramadi? Iraqi Special Operations forces have been posting photos of the operation to their Facebook page.
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But British military operations still mostly focused their attention in neighbouring Iraq. Gen. Yahya Rasool announced in a televised statement that Ramadi had been “fully liberated”. “The next step is to clear pockets that could exist here or there in the city”, said Sabah al-Numani, an official who led the fight from the government’s end.
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“The compound has been liberated”, said Suhaib al-Rawi, the governor of Anbar province, of which Ramadi is the capital.
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ISIL militants have abandoned positions in the city of Ramadi amid airstrikes being carried out by Iraqi warplanes, it has been claimed.
On Saturday, Iraqi Defense Minister Khalid al-Obeidi said “Iraqi forces are close to free Ramadi” and pledged that “during the next days, Iraqi forces will free the IS-held territories in the provinces of Anbar, as well as Salahudin and Nineveh”.
Sunday, as reports spread that the Iraqi forces were near victory in Ramadi, Army Col. Steve Warren, spokesman for the Western coalition opposing ISIS, congratulated Iraq forces “for their continued success”.
Initial estimates put the number of “IS” fighters in Ramadi at 400, but as Iraqi army and counter-terrorism forces advanced many are believed to have withdrawn or died in combat or suicide missions.
Iraqi military sources say that more than 50 militants were killed in the past 48 hours alone.
“We were totally surprised today”, the officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the press. “We’re clearing the buildings and streets around the complex of bombs in preparation to go in”, he said. Authorities did not provide casualty figures from the fighting. ISIS controls a large swathe of land that covers about a third of Iraq and Syria. It has declared a caliphate in the areas under its control and imposed a harsh and violent interpretation of Islamic law.
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In November Isis lost the city of Sinjar, the ancestral homeland of the Yazidi minority, to an offensive led by the Kurdish peshmerga and backed by USA warplanes. The militias were held back from the battlefield in Ramadi this time to avoid antagonizing the mainly Sunni population.
