‘About 700 IS militants suspected to be hiding in Ramadi’

‘About 700 IS militants suspected to be hiding in Ramadi’

‘About 700 IS militants suspected to be hiding in Ramadi’



Much of the centre of the Anbar provincial capital still needs to be cleared of explosives laid by the militants who seized the city in May, delaying the return of tens of thousands of civilians who fled to Baghdad and other parts of the country, the coalition said.

The Iraqi army retook Ramadi on Sunday in its first big victory against the extremists who swept through a third of Iraq in 2014, after months of cautious advances backed by coalition air strikes.

 

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