He said IS fighters still control 30 percent of Ramadi and that government forces do not fully control many districts from which IS fighters have retreated. “Ramadi is a success, but time is not on our side”.
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After overrunning Ramadi, Islamic State destroyed all the bridges around the city.
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The Iraqi army was humiliated in that advance, abandoning city after city and leaving fleets of American armoured vehicles and other weapons in the militants’ hands.
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The Iraq army collapsed when IS attacked Mosul in June 2014 and swept across Iraq’s Sunni Arab heartland virtually unopposed.
In recent months, the tides have turned against ISIS.
Ramadi was recaptured by federal forces, with the Popular Mobilisation – a paramilitary force dominated by Tehran-backed Shiite militia groups – remaining on the fringes.
Mourners carry the coffin of a member from the Iraqi security forces, who was killed in the city of Ramadi, during the funeral in Najaf, south of Baghdad, December 28 2015. The Islamic State group has declared a self-styled caliphate on the territory under its control.
In a major victory against ISIS, the Iraqi army claims it has recaptured Ramadi.
Rasoul said he is confident the military will retake other cities captured by ISIS.
After encircling the provincial capital for weeks, Iraqi forces launched an assault to retake it last week and made a final push to seize the central administration complex yesterday.
Meanwhile, in Syria, Kurdish resistance forces known as the YPG took control of much of northern Syria from the terror group, including Tel Abyad town some 50 miles from Raqqa, the de facto capital of the extremist group.
“The security forces have entered the governmental buildings and raised the Iraqi flags over them after killing many ISIS militants, and the rest have escaped”, Brigadier General Yahya Rasool, a spokesman for the Iraqi military, announced.
“We congratulate them on this important operational achievement”, he said. “You don’t have the obvious forces you have to fight [with in Mosul] that you have in Anbar … you have a divided political situation”. Baghdad’s goal is to retake Mosul, which now serves as ISIS’s main hub in Iraq.
The Pentagon told the BBC Monday the operation to take back Ramadi is a “proud moment for Iraq”, and that “the coalition will continue to support the government of Iraq as they move forward to make Ramadi safe for civilians to return”. “It’s hugely symbolic, but it’s also strategic – so Mosul matters a lot”, he said. “Who’s going to prevent the Islamic State from moving back in?”
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Currently, security forces are attempting to remove the improvised explosive devices that Islamic State fighters left in their wake, reports The New York Times, and there are concerns that suicide bombers and snipers might still remain in the area.
