{"id":4791,"date":"2017-09-21T14:06:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T14:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/4791-iraq-launches-offensive-to-liberate-northern-hawijah-from-daesh\/"},"modified":"2017-09-21T14:06:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T14:06:58","slug":"iraq-launches-offensive-to-liberate-northern-hawijah-from-daesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/4791-iraq-launches-offensive-to-liberate-northern-hawijah-from-daesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq launches offensive to liberate northern Hawijah from Daesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iraqi armed forces have launched a massive offensive to liberate the town of Hawijah in the oil-rich northern province of Kirkuk, one of the last remaining Daesh bastions in the Arab country.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>Iraqi armed forces have launched a massive offensive to liberate the town of Hawijah in the oil-rich northern province of Kirkuk, one of the last remaining Daesh bastions in the Arab country.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cAt the dawn of a new day, we announce the launch of the first stage of the liberation of Hawija, in accordance with our commitment to our people to liberate all Iraqi territory and eradicate Daesh\u2019s terrorist groups,\u201d said Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in a statement on Thursday.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cGreetings to all of our forces, who are waging several battles of liberation at the same time and who are winning victory after victory and this will be another, with the help of God,\u201d he added.<\/h4>\n<h4>Seven areas in the operation zone have reportedly been liberated since the early hours of the day.<\/h4>\n<h4>The Iraqi forces are backed by Popular Mobilization Units, known as Hashed al-Sha\u2019abi, in their operation.<\/h4>\n<h4>The UN has predicted that over 85,000 people could be displaced during the operation.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraqi armed forces have launched a massive offensive to liberate the town of Hawijah in the oil-rich northern province of Kirkuk, one of the last remaining Daesh bastions in the Arab country. \u00a0 Iraqi armed forces have launched a massive offensive to liberate the town of Hawijah in the oil-rich northern province of Kirkuk, one &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[865,979,33,190],"class_list":["post-4791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-daesh","tag-hawijah","tag-iraq","tag-kirkuk"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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