A symbolic and strategic victory. The offensive was launched there has ten days to regain control of this town in northern Iraq. A city fell into the hands of Sunni group Islamic State in June. Supported by Shiite militiamen, soldiers, police and members of the Iraqi popular mobilization units claim to have liberated the neighborhood of Al-Qadisiyah. Tens of thousands of men are mobilized. But the hard part. Here it is not the number of Islamist fighters who is feared, but the snipers refugees in the city, and the trapped soil. While those released exult, jihadists killed at least 17 people in a series of twelve attacks in the only city of Ramadi, 100 kilometers away.
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