The mounting casualties among Iraqi forces have made the fight increasingly personal for those who remain.
Al-Saadi said his troops would now start clearing the bombs planted on Fallujah’s streets and in houses by the retreating militants.Īs the fight against IS in Iraq enters its third year, the long back-to-back deployments are wearing many units in the country’s fractured military thin. The victory marked a new stage in a grueling, more than month-long operation. Abdul- Wahab al-Saadi, said on Iraqi state TV, surrounded by flag-waving soldiers. “The fight in Fallujah is over,” the head of the counterterrorism forces leading the operation, Lt.
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On his phone, he flipped through a series of stills from the video, saying the grisly images are reminders of his purpose in the fight.Īdding to a string of territorial victories against IS over the past year, Iraqi fighters on Sunday entered the last IS-held neighborhood of Fallujah and declared the city “fully liberated.” IS killed more than 1,000 soldiers from Camp Speicher at a nearby Saddam Husseinera complex of palaces in the city of Tikrit, north of Baghdad.Īt first, Abdelaziz hadn’t been sure of his brother’s fate, but his worst fears were confirmed when IS released a video of the massacre and he recognized Saad in it. It is a picture on his mobile phone of his brother Saad’s body among hundreds of captured Iraqi troops killed in a 2014 massacre carried out by the jihadis. Now he’s on the front lines of Fallujah, a city that was declared “fully liberated” on Sunday by the commander leading the fight against IS.Ībdelaziz has with him what he always brings into battle: a photo of his brother. Ahmed Abdelaziz, with Iraq’s special forces, has been almost continually deployed fighting the Islamic State group ever since the militants overran nearly a third of Iraq in the summer of 2014. A senior Iraqi commander declared that the city of Fallujah was “fully liberated” from Islamic State group militants on Sunday after a more than month-long military operation. What suffragist was the first woman depicted on a circulating U.S.PATCHES AND A SHIITE PIN adorn the body armor belonging to a soldiers from Iraq’s elite counter-terrorism forces during a military operation to oust the Islamic State group from Fallujah, Iraq.What was Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s newspaper named?.What does the W at the start of a radio station’s call sign indicate?.What was the first country to allow women to vote?.Which U S President was in office during most of the suffrage movement?.Which abolitionist was one of the few men at the Seneca Falls Convention?.Where was the first Women’s Rights Convention held in 1848?.state was the first to grant women the right to vote? Which amendment granted women the right to vote?.Who delivered the speech Ain’t I A Woman in Ohio in 1851?.If your device is approved by the FCC what organization authorized it?.The company nickname is Big Blue but what does IBM stand for?.PET on plastic bottles means it’s made of what?.What does the acronym for the sports organization PGA stand for?.Which acronym pronunciation was debated in a New York Times column?.
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