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Tuesday 21 June 2016

Iraqi army only retook third of Falluja - US commander

A US military commander in Baghdad has openly contradicted the Iraqi army's claim last week that it had liberated the key city of Falluja and driven out ISIS from most of the city.

Colonel Christopher Garver said Iraqi forces had cleared only a third of the city and the rest remains contested.

Iraqi commanders insist that 80% of Falluja is under their control.

Iraq's prime minister announced Falluja's "liberation" on Friday, after the city council building was retaken.

Haider al-Abadi claimed that remaining pockets of IS terrorists would be "cleaned out within hours".

But clashes between government forces and ISIS \ continue and the terrorists have dug in in residential neighbourhoods in the north of the city...
 BBC
21/6/16

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