Hundreds of Isis fighters remain holed up in Ramadi, ready to mount fresh resistance, days after the Iraqi government said that it had retaken the city.
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Clashes broke out on Friday between militants of the Islamic State (ISIS) and Iraqi army forces in the city of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province.
“A United States operations officer Major Michael Filanowski said”, five bridges in Ramadi which lies on the Euphrates and is 100 kilometres west of Baghdad have suffered various levels of destruction”.
“The expulsion of ISIS by Iraqi security forces, supported by our global coalition, is a significant step forward in the campaign to defeat this barbaric group and restore Iraq’s territorial sovereignty”, US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said in a statement on Monday. Around 70,000 families have taken refuge in camps around Baghdad.
He said the 10 vehicles targeted the Iraqi army’s 10th Division base northeast of Ramadi. “Fallujah has more of an urban structure where tribes are present but are less a structuring element of the city, so it’s going to be much harder to retake and keep the city under control”, she said from Istanbul. It was badly damaged in two offensives by United States forces against Al Qaeda insurgents in 2004.
The group’s resurgence as Daesh has divided residents of Anbar, where many accuse former Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki of shutting Sunnis out of power and being a pawn of Shiite power Iran.
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The officials warned the civilians not to return back to the city as 80 percent of Ramadi, the provincial capital of Anbar, has been destroyed in the battles. It had also created tension with Falluja residents as well as provoking clashes with Sunni tribes.
