Arthur J. Villasanta – Fourth Estate Contributor
Baghdad, Iraq (4E) – From a murderous pressure that when numbered over 30,000 killers and managed the lives of over seven million Iraqis and Syrians, ISIS has been decreased by a string of defeats and heavy losses to a scant 6,000 males struggling to stave-off their last annihilation on the huge Western Desert of Iraq.
The Iraqi Ground Forces main the ultimate assault to exterminate the disorganized and demoralized remnants of ISIS that fled into the desert to flee an enormous offensive that started final week.
The Daesh terrorists have been pushed out of the entire Iraqi cities they as soon as held however Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi mentioned he will not proclaim victory till Daesh has been wiped-out from the Western Desert bordering Syria.
“The Iraqi army, the federal police and the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation paramilitary units) … began clearing the Al-Jazeera region straddling Salaheddin, Nineveh and Anbar provinces,” mentioned Gen. Abdelamir Yarallah, head of Joint Operations Command.
The Hashed al-Shaabi launched reside footage from Siniyah in Saleheddin province of bulldozers clearing an earthen barrier to permit armor and males to advance into the desert.
Hashed al-Shaabi, a Shiite paramilitary pressure, mentioned its fighters seized 77 villages and hamlets because the offensive started on Nov. 24. It mentioned overran an airfield in the identical space and found underground warehouses utilized by ISIS.
The Iraqi Air Force has to this point supplied all of the air help for the offensive, which additionally concerned males of the Iraqi Police.
The last push comes after Iraqi forces recaptured Rawa, the final Iraqi city managed by Daesh. The Iraqi Army mentioned many ISIS militants are believed to have fled to sparsely-populated components of the al-Jazira area after crushing defeats in Iraq and Syria.
The Western Desert was used as a sanctuary by ISIS and the Taliban-inspired group it sprang from. The area is of strategic significance to ISIS because the terrorists used routes by way of it to switch fighters, weapons and items.
ISIS has been pushed out of about 95 % of the land the group as soon as held in Iraq. More than four.four million Iraqis are now not dwelling beneath its inhuman rule, in keeping with the U.S.-led coalition supporting the Iraqi authorities.
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