Iraqi armed forces have liberated Rawa, the last remaining town under the grip of the ISIS terror group, hours after they launched the offensive.
Iraqi armed forces have liberated Rawa, the last remaining town under the grip of the ISIS terror group, hours after they launched the offensive.
Lieutenant General Abdul Ameer Rasheed Yarallah said in a statement from the Joint Operations Command on Friday that Iraqi forces “liberated Rawa entirely, and raised the Iraqi flag over its buildings.”
The force striking Rawa near the border with Syria comprised government troops and paramilitary units. “With the liberation of Rawa, we can say all the areas in which ISIS is present have been liberated,” Reuters quoted a military spokesman as saying.
The announcement came hours after the Iraqi Defense Ministry said in a statement that military units and local tribal fighters entered the western neighborhoods of Rawa on the Euphrates River in the western province of Anbar.
