The US-led coalition says Fallujah is approximately one-third “cleared” of the Islamic State group, days after the Iraqi government declared victory in the city west of Baghdad.
US Army Col. Christopher Garver, the Baghdad-based spokesman for the coalition, says other parts of the city are “contested,” with clashes underway between Iraqi security forces and IS fighters.
Garver says most of the cleared terrain is in the south of the city and “clearing operations continue outward from the city center.”
Iraqi government forces patrol the center of the city of Fallujah on June 18, 2016 as they hunt down holdout jihadists after retaking the Islamic State (IS) group’s last remaining major hub in Iraq. (Stringer/AFP)
Iraqi commanders on the ground have said 80 percent of the city is under their control.
Fallujah is the last bastion of the Islamic State group in the sprawling western Anbar province. IS still controls pockets of territory in Iraq’s north and west, including Mosul, the country’s second largest city.
— AP
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