But that didn’t stop Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi from visiting the shattered city and raising the national flag.
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“There is extensive destruction in the city as a result of terrorist activity and military operations”, said Ibrahim al-Osej, a member of the Ramadi district council.
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He offered United Nations support, said a statement from his spokesman.
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“I think this fight shows the Iraqis are ready to fight and these calls for USA ground troops are not the best strategy moving forward”, said Ahmed Ali, a senior fellow at the Institute of Regional and International Studies at the American University of Iraq.
But while the airstrikes eventually helped flush out the militants, they smashed large parts of the city into rubble.
“We have not seen this enemy able to mass any type of combat, any type of real combat power in any type of effort to really conduct a conservative counterattack”, Warren said.
Iraq’s Shiite-dominated government in Baghdad is hoping that by bringing local Sunni tribal leaders in Anbar province into the political process, it can help prevent Ramadi and other areas from slipping back into ISIS’ grasp. Many of its majority-Sunni residents fled the ISIS occupation and the fighting.
On Dec. 25 and 26, we conducted a series of strikes on the secondary roads to further degrade ISIL’s ability to move fighters and supplies the between Iraq and Syria, ” he said.
Two days earlier, a coalition air strike in Syria killed Charaffe al Mouadan, a Syria-based Islamic State member with a direct link to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected ringleader of the coordinated bombings and shootings in Paris on November 13 which killed 130 people, Warren said. According to security sources the prime minister was not in danger but was forced to leave the area.
The recapture of Ramadi has nevertheless lifted the morale of Iraq’s troops. He and Iraqi officials put Islamic State casualties in the hundreds.
The Iraqi military’s success in Ramadi was notable for not relying on the Iranian-backed Shiite militias that were key to retaking the city of Tikrit from ISIS in March. Variations between Mosul & Ramadi Reclaiming Mosul, the country’s second-largest city, will probably be an noteworthy step in making an attempt to achieve Abadi’s formidable goal.
There is also the question of what do with Sunni areas like Ramadi once the militants are driven out.
Ramadi is the capital of Anbar province.
Initial phases of an operation to take back Fallujah and Mosul – which have populations of more than 320,000 and 1 million, respectively – already are underway. But the Sahwas later fell out with the central government, which contributed to the IS group’s resurgence. That is the absence of a moderate Sunni political alternative or cohesive fighting force in either Iraq or Syria.
Some jihadist fighters have yet to be flushed out, mostly on the eastern edge of the city, and many reconquered areas have yet to be fully cleared of roadside bombs and booby traps.
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We trained several of the Iraqi army brigades, [counterterrorism service] units and police forces who fought there, ” Warren said.
