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At the time of turmoil, Ramadi was considered by many global news outlets to be the most dangerous place in the world. The 10-month long battle in the arid, urban streets saw a great deal of bloodshed ...

Iraqi ground forces stormed Ramadi on Tuesday in an attempt to wrest control of the Iraqi city from the Islamic State, which has controlled it for months. The troops began their offensive Monday night ...

The Iraqi military is about a mile from the ISIS-held government compound in Ramadi in Iraq’s battle to retake the key city from the terrorist group, a spokesman for Iraq’s Joint Operations Command ...

WASHINGTON-- After months of preliminary skirmishes and hundreds of U.S. airstrikes, conditions are now right for Iraq to launch a decisive assault on Ramadi and reclaim the provincial capital from ...

TOPSHOT - A picture taken on February 10, 2016 shows armoured vehicles of Iraqi pro-governement forces in front of damaged buildings in the Saida area in the southern outskirts of Ramadi, after they ...

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On 28 December 2015 an Iraqi military spokesman announced that Iraqi Security Forces had taken the Ramadi government complex back from the Islamic State (variously known as ISIS, ISIL, Daesh). While ...

"Real estate office" reads a hand-lettered metal sign featuring the now-familiar logo of ISIS, an organization in retreat in Iraq but far from defeated. The Iraqi special forces officers with whom I'm ...

A group of five men crouch behind a berm. Periodically they stand and fire and then duck again behind sandbags. Their outfit is about a dozen in all. A commander surveys the scene, studying the plumes ...

On a cold desert morning full of birdsong and smokers' coughs, the head of Iraq's special forces is holding court in the master bedroom of a commandeered family home, perched on the edge of a rumpled ...