Iraqi army launches major anti Daesh offensive in Ramadi

11/13/2015 12:19:26 PM

(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) The official military media wing of the Iraqi army said Friday that security forces started an extensive attack from three hubs on the city of Ramadi in an attempt to take it back from Daesh.

According to the statement Iraqi security forces started advancing from the western northern and southern hubs of Ramadi.

“The Iraqi Air Force in coordination with the military intelligence managed to destroy two explosive-laden trucks in the Albo-Ali Jasem area in northern Ramadi” Colonel Walid al-Delimi told Anadolu Agency.

Although Daeshlost several parts of Iraq’s Diyala Nineveh and Saladin provinces it remains in control of most of Anbar province including Ramadi.

Iraqhas plunged into a security vacuum since June 2014whenDaeshstormed the northern city of Mosul and declared what it called a caliphate in parts of Iraqand Syria.

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