BAGHDAD –
The Iraqi prime minister Haider al-Abadi last Thursday, the victory declared in the battle against the group Islamic State in the city of Tal Afar.
“Tal Afar is liberated”, as was the premier in a statement to know. He called to the remaining warriors that IS about to give up. In the past few days offered IS fighters still strong resistance in Tal Afar located village of al-Ayadiya. An Iraqi legerwoordvoerder predicted that they are dead would fight, because they have “nothing to lose”.
The Iraqi forces opened earlier this month, the attack on Tal Afar, where before the conflict, approximately 200,000 people attended. The city is located on the strategically important highway between Mosul and Syria. It was, Raqqa, one of the few cities that is still in IS hands.