{"id":5070,"date":"2017-11-19T07:16:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T07:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/5070-iraqi-forces-liberate-last-isis-held-town-rawa-near-syrian-border\/"},"modified":"2017-11-19T07:16:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T07:16:13","slug":"iraqi-forces-liberate-last-isis-held-town-rawa-near-syrian-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/5070-iraqi-forces-liberate-last-isis-held-town-rawa-near-syrian-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi forces liberate last ISIS-held town Rawa near Syrian border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iraqi armed forces have liberated Rawa, the last remaining town under the grip of the ISIS terror group, hours after they launched the offensive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>Iraqi armed forces have liberated Rawa, the last remaining town under the grip of the ISIS terror group, hours after they launched the offensive.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>Lieutenant General Abdul Ameer Rasheed Yarallah said in a statement from the Joint Operations Command on Friday that Iraqi forces \u201cliberated Rawa entirely, and raised the Iraqi flag over its buildings.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>The force striking Rawa near the border with Syria comprised government troops and paramilitary units.\u00a0 \u201cWith the liberation of Rawa, we can say all the areas in which ISIS is present have been liberated,\u201d Reuters quoted a military spokesman as saying.\u00a0\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>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.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraqi armed forces have liberated Rawa, the last remaining town under the grip of the ISIS terror group, hours after they launched the offensive.\u00a0 \u00a0 Iraqi armed forces have liberated Rawa, the last remaining town under the grip of the ISIS terror group, hours after they launched the offensive.\u00a0 Lieutenant General Abdul Ameer Rasheed Yarallah &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15742,"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":[891,85,1037,516],"class_list":["post-5070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-iraqi-forces","tag-isis","tag-rawa","tag-terrorists"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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