Prime Minister Abadi declares ‘end of war against ISIS’ in Iraq


09-12-2017 05:29 AM

Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced on Saturday “the end of the war” in Iraq against the ISIS group and that his forces had regained full control of the border with Syria.

“Our forces are in complete control of the Iraqi-Syrian border and I therefore announce the end of the war against ISIS,” Abadi told a conference in Baghdad.

“Our enemy wanted to kill our civilization, but we have won through our unity and our determination. We have triumphed in little time,” he said.

ISIS seized vast areas north and west of Baghdad in a lightning offensive in 2014, endangering the very existence of the Iraqi state.

Iraq’s fightback was launched with the backing of an air campaign waged by a US-led coalition, recapturing town after town from the clutches of the militants.

“I announce the good news: the liberation by Iraqi forces of the whole of the Iraqi-Syrian border,”the prime minister told the conference organized by the Iraqi journalists’ union.

Iraqi armed forces also announced in a statement on Saturday that country has been Iraq has been “totally liberated” from ISIS.

*Agencies




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