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February 25th, 2016 
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nsnbc : The Iraqi Army launched a major offensive to recapture major strategic areas and cities in the country’s Al-Anbar province from the self-proclaimed Islamic State. The province, bordering Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, is a key asset for the insurgents southern logistics system.
Iraqi troops in Mosul (archives).
Iraqi Army Major General Ali Ibrahim Daboun told the press that the Iraqi Army sent troop reinforcements to the Hit district of Al-Anbar province to re-capture key areas and cities from the self-proclaimed Islamic State, a.k.a. ISIS, ISIL or Daesh. The troops arrived at the Ain Air Base located in the Hit district.
Daboun added that the Army operations are being coordinated with the counter-terrorism service and police forces in the city of Hit, northwest of the provincial capital of Ramadi and near the Kubeisa area.
The city of Ramadi was recaptured from ISIL in December 2015 after a sustained campaign and several failed attempts to flush out the insurgents. The city was captured by ISIL during the launch of its major campaign in early 2014, when large swaps of former Baathist military officers joined the ranks of the organization.
Iraqi forces have over the course of the last week re-established control over several areas east of Ramadi where mop-up and clean-up operations continue. Re-establishing full control over liberated areas is both dangerous and time-consuming because withdrawing ISIL troops leave booby-traps and roadside bombs as well as a core cells of fighters who blend in with the local population behind.
ISIS routes to Syria via Al-Anbar since 2012. Map Plottings: Red, Agha H. Amin. Blue, Christof Lehmann.
The Army’s Chief of Operations in Al-Anbar province, Major General Ismail Al-Mahlawi, told the press that Iraqi forces thwarted a ISIL attack against a military base in the recently liberated town of al-Hamidiya, east of Ramadi. Al-Mahlawi told the press that the attack was thwarted on Monday and that some 46 Daesh fighters were killed. Army operations are also supported by Iraqi self-defense forces and an unknown number of Iranian troops.
Iraqi Defense Minister Khaled al-Obaidi told the press that Iraqi troops and allied fighters have undertaken a decisive battle to wrest back control of the northern city of Mosul too. The Minister added that the government has deployed thousands of additional troops to the Makhmour district east of Mosul to prepare what he described as ” a final push to flush the terrorists out of the city”. A carefully optimistic Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider Al-Abadi, vowed to end the existence of Daesh in Iraq before the end of 2016.
While there has been a lot of media coverage of ISIL’s advances in northern Iraq via Turkey, there has been relatively little coverage of the insurgents advances across the Iraqi – Saudi border. In late 2012 the then Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Malaki stressed that Saudi Arabia had re-opened old smuggling routes in Al-Anbar province to provide ISIL fighters in Syria’s Deir Ez-Zor with weapons, munitions and fresh fighters.
Al-Malaki’s decision to deploy troops to the border region in 2013 was according to many analysts a factor that contributed to Saudi Arabia’s and its allies decision to launch the invasion of Iraq with ISIL forces in 2014. A person fro within the inner circle around the former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri provided evidence to nsnbc that documented that the final decision to launch the invasion of Iraq with ISIL fell during the Atlantic Council’s Energy Summit in Turkey in November 2013.
F/AK – nsnbc 24.02.2016
Source Article from http://nsnbc.me/2016/02/24/iraqi-army-launched-anti-isil-offensive-in-al-anbar-province/
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