Fallujah declared `fully liberated` from Isis by senior Iraqi army commander

  26 June 2016    Read: 1152
Fallujah declared `fully liberated` from Isis by senior Iraqi army commander
Fallujah has been declared "fully liberated" from Isis by the Iraqi army commander leading the operation against the jihadis.
The head of the counterterrorism forces in the operation, Lt. Gen. Abdul-Wahad al-Saadi said on Sunday that his troops had entered the northwestern al-Julan neighbourhood, which was the final area of the city under Isis control.

Lt. Gen. al-Saadi said the operation, which began in late May, "is done and the city is fully liberated".

Fallujah, just 30 miles west of Baghdad, has been under Isis control since January 2014.

It is the latest in a series of key cities to fall to Iraqi forces as they push the group back.

More than 82,000 people are believed tp have fled the fighting in recent weeks as the Norwegian Refugee Council described conditions at the nearby Amriyat al-Fallujah refugee camp as a "humanitarian disaster".

Jan Egeland, secretary general of the charity, told The Telegraph: “The conditions we are seeing in the camps are miserable, the scenes apocalyptic.

“They fled the nightmare of Fallujah, now they wait for tents, sleep in warehouses or out in the open. Iraq`s civilians deserve much better.”

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