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| Iraq |
| Iraqi Forces Close In on Final Islamic State Post in Ramadi |
| 2015-12-26 |
| [WSJ] Iraq's military said it was closing in Friday on a former government compound in Ramadi that remains the only area of the city still under Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... control. Iraqi forces were less than a mile from the compound where about 100 bully boyz are holding out, the government said. Though Iraqi troops greatly outnumber the Islamic State fighters, they have struggled to advance in a landscape dotted with land mines and improvised bombs. "Our preparations to attack the government compound are still on and we are approaching step by step," Brig. Gen. Ahmed al-Bilawi, commander of the Anbar province emergency police division, said Friday. "Still the IEDs and booby-trapped houses have made the biggest delay for our forces," he said. "The engineering teams are doing most of the work now just to defuse explosives and whenever they are done with them we can attack the government compound." Iraqi forces backed by U.S-led |
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