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US bombing campaign helps Iraqi forces recapture key Ramadi area from Islamic State group

Iraqi government forces recaptured a key position outside the city of Ramadi in an essential development in the ongoing fight against the Islamic State group, officials said Sunday. The country’s Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) retook the Anbar University campus after the nation’s military lost most of it to the militant group this year. Aka the […]

Jeff Stone writes for the International Business Times:

Iraqi government forces recaptured a key position outside the city of Ramadi in an essential development in the ongoing fight against the Islamic State group, officials said Sunday. The country’s Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) retook the Anbar University campus after the nation’s military lost most of it to the militant group this year.

Aka the Golden Brigade, the CTS raised the Iraqi flag above the university in Ramadi, a city in central Iraq about 68 miles west of Baghdad. Control of this key strategic point in the war-torn country has changed hands a number of times since U.S. troops entered the nation in 2003.