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| Iraq 'totally liberated' from Isis, country's armed forces claim | Iraq 'totally liberated' from Isis, country's armed forces claim |
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| Iraq has been ''totally liberated'' from Isis, the Iraqi armed forces announced in a statement on Saturday. | Iraq has been ''totally liberated'' from Isis, the Iraqi armed forces announced in a statement on Saturday. |
| The country's Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, also declared the "end of the war against Isis", AFP reported. | The country's Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, also declared the "end of the war against Isis", AFP reported. |
| Its armed forces were in control of the entire Iraq-Syria border, he said. | |
| In the announcement, Lt Gen Abdul-Amir Rasheed Yar Allah said combat operations against the extremists have concluded after Iraqi forces retook control of the country's border with Syria. | |
| The statement said: "All Iraqi lands are liberated from terrorist Daesh gangs and our forces completely control the international Iraqi-Syrian borders." | |
| Isis fighters overran nearly a third of Iraqi territory, including Mosul, the country's second largest city, in the summer of 2014. | |
| Over the past three-and-a-half years, Iraqi ground forces closely backed by the US-led coalition have retaken all the territory once held by extremists, but the group remains capable of carrying out insurgent attacks. | |
| More follows… | More follows… |