Iraqi government forces retook the last town in the country still held by the Islamic State terror group.
Iraq’s Joint Operations Command (JOC), General Abdelamir Yarallah said in a statement that Government troops and paramilitary units liberated the whole of Rawa yesterday.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi hailed the town’s liberation in record time and said troops would now “conduct search operations in the desert to secure the border with Syria. The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State said IS has lost 95 percent of the cross-border caliphate it declared in Iraq and Syria in 2014.
