Iraqi government gives Ramadi citizens 72 hours to evacuate Published December 20th, 2015

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Iraqi government gives Ramadi citizens 72 hours to evacuate

Published December 20th, 2015 - 18:20 GMT via SyndiGate.info

 

 

 

 

Iraqi pro-government tribal forces hold a position in the Tel Mushaihed area, east of Ramadi, a large city on the Euphrates 60 miles west of Baghdad on December 16, 2015. (AFP/File)

 

The Iraqi army has asked people to leave the strategic city of Ramadi within 72 hours, as pro-government forces close in on the militants in the capital of the western province of Anbar.

On Sunday, Iraqi military planes dropped leaflets in Ramadi, urging residents to leave within 72 hours the western city, which is located around 100 kilometers west of the capital, Baghdad.

Iraq’s state TV, citing a military statement, said the government forces plan to launch a major offensive to liberate the city from Daesh militants.

"It is an indication that a major military operation to retake the city center will start soon," the statement said.

This comes as Iraqi security forces, backed by fighters from allied Popular Mobilization units, have made advances on the outskirts of Ramadi liberating a number of neighborhoods and flushing out fighters from the areas.

Last week, Iraqi forces retook the sprawling district of al-Taamim in western Ramadi from the militant group.

Senior authorities in Baghdad maintain that the recapture of al-Taamim and the Anbar Operations Command headquarters could advance government efforts to fully retake Ramadi.

Iraq’s Defense Ministry has recently predicted that the militant-riddled city of Ramadi will be liberated before the end of 2015.

Iraq's Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi has said that the government in the past had repeatedly delayed the operations in an attempt to avoid civilian casualties.  

Iraqi forces succeeded in liberating some militant-held areas and further tightening their siege around the city.

Daesh militants captured Ramadi in May.

Iraq has been grappling with a deadly insurgency since the summer of 2014 when Daesh seized control of some territories west and north of the Arab country. The group has claimed dozens of bombing attacks on areas outside of its control across Iraq, including those in central and eastern provinces.

The Iraqi military and popular forces have managed to expel the militants from some key areas, including Tikrit, the capital of Salahuddin Province, which was declared liberated at the end of March.

This article has been modified from the source material.

http://www.albawaba.com/news/iraqi-government-gives-ramadi-citizens-72-hours-evacuate-783708

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Iraq for the people of Mosul: Get ready Liberalization close

Monday 21-12-2015 | 12:50:41

 

 

 

 

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Twilight News / notified the Iraqi Ministry of Defense people of Mosul, near the liberation of their city from the control of the organization Daash terrorist. 
He said local residents for Twilight News, said the Iraqi air force planes dropped leaflets paper hours before the city confirms end its military preparations for the forces and the security forces, the crowd liberalization city of Mosul of control Daash gangs, claim at the same time parents should be to cooperate with the forces liberated and stay away as much as possible on the whereabouts of militants and their communities will be vulnerable to being targeted at any time.

They said the population a state of terror seized the elements of the organization on the back shed those publications and prevented some of the locals picked up and read their content, but they failed to prevent their access to all parents the fact that the amount of leaflets dropped by aircraft was very large.

 

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IS stopping civilians leaving Ramadi before attack - Iraq Defence Ministry

Date: 21.12.15, 14:20

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Islamic State militants are preventing civilians from leaving Ramadi ahead of an attack planned by the Iraqi army to retake the western city that the militants captured in May, an Iraqi Defence Ministry spokesman said on Monday.

 

"There are families that managed to escape the gangs of Daesh," the spokesman, Naseer Nuri, told Reuters, using a local derogatory name for the group.

"There is intelligence information from inside the city that they are preventing families from leaving; they plan to use them as human shields," he added, without indicating the number of those who had managed to flee.

Iraqi military planes on Sunday dropped leaflets on Ramadi, asking residents to leave within 72 hours and indicating safe routes for their exit.

Iraqi intelligence estimates the number of Islamic State fighters that are entrenched in the center of Ramadi, capital of Anbar province, at between 250 and 300.

[calkid11]

Thank you

[WheresmyRV?]

I smell a a$$ whipping coming to ISIS.

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Military operations in Ramadi

Army Chief of Staff: gray storming process will be launched in the coming hours

 

Author: HH 
Editor: HH 2015/12/21 17:47 Number of Views: 44 

 

Long-Presse / Baghdad

Chief of Army Staff detect Agency Lt. Gen. Othman al-Ghanemi, Monday, storming the city of Ramadi that process, (110 km west of Baghdad) will be launched in the coming hours.  

Lt. Gen. Othman al-Ghanemi said in a flash aired on Iraqi satellite semi-official, "The storming of the city of Ramadi and cleared of organizing process (Daash) will be launched in the coming hours."

The Joint Special Operations Command called, on Sunday, (December 20 2015), the citizens of the city of Ramadi (110 km west of Baghdad), to evacuation within 72 hours, while confirming that the air force planes dropped leaflets directing them to a wire safe roads.

The Anbar province has seen heavy fighting and control organization (Daash) on most of the cities of the province including Fallujah and Ramadi and western regions and the loss of hundreds of dead and wounded among the military and police and civilians during the clashes since more than a year and ten months.

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Iraqi Ministry of Defense: the Islamic state to prevent residents from leaving Ramadi

16:12:08 2015-12-21 | (Voice of Iraq Reuters) - A spokesman for the Iraqi Defense Ministry said on Monday that the organization of the Islamic State fighters prevented civilians from leaving the city of Ramadi, ahead of a planned attack Iraqi army aims to wrest control of the western city, which was dominated by hard-liners in May. The spokesman added Naseer Nouri told Reuters There are families that were able to escape from "gangs Daash (Islamic state)." He said there was intelligence information from within the city that the militants are prevented from leaving families and intend to use them as human shields. did not mention the number of the speaker managed to flee. The Iraqi army planes dropped leaflets on Sunday asked where the gray of the population to leave within 72 hours and indicated safe ways to exit. The Iraqi intelligence estimated that the number of Islamic State fighters holed up in the center of Ramadi, capital of Anbar province, ranges between 250 and 300 fighter. (preparation Yasmin Hussein Arab Bulletin - Edit princess Fahmy)

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[ronscarpa]

 This is really good (prep for attack to retake Ramadi), and bad (using citizens as human shields). If its so glorious to die in Jihad, why do these cowards want to kill innocent muslims in the process...? Sick mentality..!

[skeetdog]

Thanks SD...ISIS seems to have played-out their part in accomplishing their purpose...The world leaders have become aware of the sick mentality this rogue gang of thugs are capable of and ISIS has gotten the attention they deserve...to be exterminated...Seems we're getting ready for another Holy-War against Islam in a round about way through the extremist ISIS radicals...    

[millionaire in training]

Oh God please help these people get it it together.  

[yota691]

Iraqi forces edit Ramadi begin the process of organizing the "Islamic state."

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Last update: 12/22/2015

Iraqi forces began an armed attack Tuesday to expel the jihadists of the "Islamic state" of Ramadi, capital of Anbar province in western Iraq city center, dominated organization on the strategic city since March. According to a spokesman for the anti-terrorism device, the Iraqi troops entered the city at dawn today and will be cleared in 72 hours.

Iraqi security sources said on Tuesday that Iraqi forces began the process to liberate the city of Ramadi, capital of the province of the news dominated by the "Islamic state" since March / March last.

According to a spokesman for the anti-terrorism device Sabah al-Nu'man, the Iraqi troops entered at dawn on the city center, where he said in a statement to AFP news agency, "We entered into the gray center of several axes, and we started cleansing neighborhoods" in the city blockaded by Iraqi forces weeks ago, explaining that he will be "cleansing the city in the 72 hours the next full hour. "

The entry of Iraqi forces to the inner neighborhoods of the city

He added that "our forces reached the pristine neighborhood and widows did not encounter heavy resistance in the cities with the exception of snipers and suicide bombers and this tactic we expected."

He said a high-ranking officer in the anti-terrorism device AFP news agency that "Our forces managed to build a geometric bridges on the Euphrates River, which was able to cross to the inside residential neighborhoods in the center of Ramadi."

"The distance between our government and the complex reality in the Haouz area (city center) completely less than one kilometer and a battle with the elements Daash in this area all the weapons."

Iraqi forces have surrounded the city of Ramadi from all sides for several weeks, allowing it to cut off supplies to the elements of the organization and regain control of the Tamim neighborhood west of the city and the leadership of former Anbar operations north of the city.

Himself, the spokesman stressed that "elements Daash fled to agricultural areas and yet we were able to detonate two cars driven by suicide bombers, killing 12 militants."

The Iraqi Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi, predicted Saturday that Iraqi forces can support air strikes from coalition forces, which the United States led the restoration of the city of Ramadi end of this year.

 

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Iraqi Troops Advance in Battle for IS-Held City of Ramadi

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BAGHDAD — Dec 22, 2015, 5:05 AM ET

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An Iraqi government spokesman says Iraqi forces are making progress in the military operation to retake the western city of Ramadi from the Islamic State group.

The operation was launched in earnest in November.

Spokesman Sabah al-Numan says the troops on Tuesday crossed the Euphrates River to reach downtown Ramadi. The city has been under IS control since May, when Iraqi forces withdrew under an IS onslaught.

Al-Numan says sporadic clashes are underway and that Iraqi forces are being forced to remove roadside bombs as they push forward.

He says no paramilitary forces, mostly made up of pro-government Shiite militias, are taking part in the operation. Al-Numan says the Iraqi air force and the U.S.-led international coalition are providing air support to troops on ground and bombing IS targets.

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Counter-terrorism: we entered residential neighborhoods in the center of Ramadi

He wrote in: December 22, 2015

Anti-terrorism device, announced his forces enter the residential areas in the center of the city of Ramadi.

As spokesman Sabah al-Nu'man device that anti-terrorism device proceeded to cross the bank of the Euphrates River from the area it has been identified and secured, indicating that those forces now engaged in fierce battles with the elements of the organization in shy of the widows and the eldest of the city, and pointed out that the operation was a peek and fled on the track a number of elements organization to neighboring farms.

Numan also confirmed the existence of a large effort to fly the army and the air force to destroy targets within the coordinates given to them from the advancing forces, adding that these forces advancing accompanied by the engineering effort and nearby clocks will see the announcement of the resolution of the battles.

 

 

Zamili announce encircle the city of Ramadi, the center from all sides

He wrote in: December 22, 2015

The President of the Commission on Security and Defense parliamentary of quitting, security forces cordoned off the center of the city of Ramadi from all sides.

Zamili stressed in a press statement that he will enter the city center soon calling on families to get out of the gray security in order to fight the pieces of Daash without fear for the lives of civilians demanding Anbar operations commander Maj. Gen. Ismail Mahlawi and security leaders to preserve the lives of innocent people.

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Iraqi forces were advancing towards the center of Ramadi government compound

History of edits:: 2015/12/22 14:28 • 16 visits readable

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anti-terrorism device announced Tuesday on the progress of the machine forces towards the center of Ramadi government compound.

His spokesman morning Nomani in a press statement, "our troops were advancing towards the government complex in Ramadi's city 
center." The fighting was taking place now in the neighborhoods surrounding the complex and the support of the Air Force. 
"Entered pieces of anti-device forces of terrorism pristine neighborhood in Ramadi city center, within the process of liberalization the entire city of Daash terrorist gangs. 
The security forces have embarked on a process to break into the morning gray city center for the Liberation of terrorists e Daash.anthy

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Good morning Yota. Thank you

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US special force backed by helicopters involved battles gray cleansing

 

Author: AB, BS, HF 
Editor: AB, BS 2015/12/22 15:20 Number of Views: 166 
 

 

 

Long-Presse / Anbar

A source in Anbar Operations Command, on Tuesday, on the participation of US special forces backed by helicopter in Ramadi cleansing battles, (110 km) west of Baghdad, as he emphasized that the force carried out special operations individually.

The source said in an interview to the (long-Presse), said that "accurate intelligence sharing a private US troops backed by Apache helicopters in cleansing gray and individually in several axes of the city battles revealed."

The source, who asked not to be named, said: "US Special Forces tasks destroyed the headquarters of the organization (Daash) and killed their leaders with cutting their funding lines and provide them and restricting their movements and prevent them from delivering combat support to their cells which clash directly with the security forces."

The source added, "The US Special Forces carried out combat operations alone without the participation of Iraqi forces with her and Chen military operations to the goals of elected according to intelligence information provided by confidential sources within Ramadi."

The military cell media, announced on Tuesday, the fight against terrorism from entering the device to the center of the city of Ramadi (110 km west of Baghdad) to purify it from the control of the elements of the organization (Daash).

The Anbar province has seen heavy fighting and control organization (Daash) on most of the cities of the province including Fallujah and Ramadi and western regions and the loss of hundreds of dead and wounded among the military and police and civilians during the clashes since more than two years almost.

 

 

 

 

Iraqi forces are about to edit gray

Cleanse pristine neighborhood and killed 33 of element (Daash) south east of Ramadi

 

Author: HF, HH 
Editor: HH 2015/12/22 13:42 Number of Views: 435 

 

Long-Presse / Anbar

A source in the leadership of the anti-terrorism forces in Anbar province, on Tuesday, that the security forces were able to cleanse the pristine neighborhood, southeast of Ramadi (110 km) west of Baghdad, killing 33 as he emphasized an element of organization (Daash) during cleansing battles.

The source said in an interview with the (long-Presse), "The strength of the fight against terrorism carried out an operation targeting al Daash sites in pristine neighborhood (6 km southeast of gray), which resulted in the purge neighborhood and killed 33 element of (Daash) and the bombing of four wheels bomb."

The source, who asked not to be named, said: "anti-terrorism forces published a number of snipers above the pristine neighborhood buildings and began searching houses and shops and purge the rest of the streets of the neighborhood, which is now fully under the control of the security forces."

The military cell media, announced Tuesday, to enter the anti-terrorism device to Ramadi city center, (110 km west of Baghdad) to purify it from the control of the elements of the organization (Daash).

The Anbar province has seen heavy fighting and control organization (Daash) on most of the cities of the province including Fallujah and Ramadi and western regions and the loss of hundreds of dead and wounded among the military and police and civilians during the clashes since more than two years almost.

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Anti-terrorism device frees pristine neighborhood and raised the Iraqi flag over one of its buildings

 

Anti-terrorism device frees pristine neighborhood and raised the Iraqi flag over one of its buildings

 

 

December 22, 2015 15:37

 

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According to a security source in Anbar province on Tuesday  that the "anti-terrorism forces freed a pristine neighborhood south of Ramadi, which is less than 1 km from the government compound in Ramadi," noting that "troops have raised the Iraqi flag over a neighborhood buildings"

The source, who asked not to be named, said: "After the liberalization of the neighborhood have been violent confrontations and clashes that killed dozens of terrorists Daash," explaining that "anti-terrorism device forces began the progress toward the government complex."

The anti-terrorism device announced on Tuesday that his forces entered neighborhoods in the city of Ramadi, center, noting that these forces were advancing towards government buildings and on the way to clean up all the city's neighborhoods.

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Urgent .. Iraqi special force declares access to Ramadi

Tuesday 22-12-2015 | 11:30:55

 

 

 

 

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Twilight News / announced anti-terrorism device, from entering the city of Ramadi, one of the elements of the organization Daaash strongholds west of the capital Baghdad.

And Defence Minister Khaled al-Obeidi said yesterday that Iraqi forces on the eve of the Emancipation Proclamation city of Ramadi.

The Iraqi military aviation has delivered yesterday, the first Sunday leaflets on the city where the population is advised to leave within 72 hours for their own safety.

Iraqi forces announced last week it had made progress on two fronts in gray, and she expelled Daash of important military base and nationalization neighborhood to the west of the city.

According to the Iraqi authorities intelligence estimates, there are about 300 in the gray of Daash.

According to a brief statement to a counter-terrorism responded to Twilight News, he enters the city of Ramadi, center of several dialogue and start clearing neighborhoods where.

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Iraqi forces confirm that it was writing the last chapter of the battle for Ramadi

By Adil Dalal

23/12 10:13 CET

 

 

On the third day of the Battle of Ramadi, Iraqi forces managed to enter the city center of several axes where has control over the neighborhoods of al-Bakr and widows. Iraqi army, which benefit from the support of the international coalition forces seeking to regain control fully to Ramadi, Anbar province, which was the largest of Iraq's provinces space, away from the capital Baghdad at about one hundred and eight kilometers fell into the hands of the organization of the Islamic state in the month of May-last May, which then was considered an embarrassing defeat of the Iraqi army. Government forces tightened their encirclement of the city a month ago, with a Sunni majority, and surrounded the militants inside its organization, to cut off communications between them and the organization strongholds in Anbar and other areas in neighboring Syria.

Iraqi forces were able to build temporary bridges on the Euphrates River and cross into the center of Ramadi neighborhoods where there are clashes all weapons with the extreme elements of the organization. Joint operations made it clear that it can not determine a time limit to resolve the battle to date in Ramadi because they need to purge wide, pointing out that it is not important to speed the resolution of the battle, but access according to plan and the safety of the fighters in the light of the proliferation of improvised explosive materials in all the roads and buildings, which It requires a major logistical effort is to dismantle explosive material. According to informed sources within the international coalition forces, about three hundred and fifty fighters in the ranks of the organization of the so-called Islamic State still in Ramadi add up to tens of thousands of civilians. Security reports confirmed that the terrorist organization that collects citizensMaybe To use them as human shields.

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The joint forces are preparing to storm the government complex center of Ramadi
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Council Khalidiya spend in Anbar province, announced on Thursday that the joint forces are preparing to storm the government compound, in downtown Ramadi, and as pointed out that the security forces are working to evacuate civilians from some areas to ensure their safety, he stressed that the Iraqi flag will increase in the coming days over gray government buildings .

The head of the district council Khalidiya Ali Daoud, told local media followed Radio tow "The security forces of the army and the police and the fight against terrorism and fighters of the clan is preparing militarily to break into the government complex in downtown Ramadi to clean up the rest of the district teachers and Andalus areas and pitch and 20th Street with dismantling IEDs and booby-trapped houses. " 

He added that the "gray cleanse the continuing fighting has never stopped and the security forces are working to evacuate civilians in some areas inside the gray to ensure the safety of confrontations sites," asserting that "the Iraqi flag will raise during the next few days over the government complex center of Ramadi and government buildings after the collapse and the flight of elements of the organization ". 

The cell media war declared in 22 of the December 2015 entry counter-terrorism device to Ramadi city center to purify it from the control of the elements of the organization Daash while security forces were able to cleanse the pristine neighborhood, south of the city, clearing the Po Diab Jereche road in the northern axis of gray.

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Kerry expresses confidence of achieving results in the attack on Ramadi

History of edits:: 2015/12/23 22:44 • 192 visits readable

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he US Secretary of State John Kerry, is confident of the outcome of the Iraqi security forces attack, "backed by the international coalition aviation for the Liberation of the city of Ramadi.

Kerry said in a press statement on Wednesday, "It is possible an attack like that has occurred in Ramadi, but I am absolutely confident that the results will appear in the coming days." 
The security forces had stormed the city of Ramadi, the center of the backing flight international coalition, as announced leadership joint operations to make progress in several axes, the center estimates that there about 300 terrorists Daash element of the majority of the inhabitants of the city after the defection of the majority of foreigners, of which a few weeks ago. 
The forecast of the Ministry of Defense achieved within the next three days. is over

[nannab]

I think Kerry should be over there too. I never like him such a phony.

[savoy8060]

I'd fly over  - predawn - and spray the city with sleeping gas. Hopefully none of the elderly or very young would be adversely affected. Would make clean up pretty easy with lower loss of lives. With everyone snoozing - will make looking for booby-traps a tad less distracting.

 

Once complete - turn over all rounded-up daesh to the Iraq Army for disposition - which probably would entail a short hike out into the local desert to some previously dug pits..