{"id":2510,"date":"2015-05-26T21:57:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T21:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=2510"},"modified":"2015-05-26T21:58:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T21:58:00","slug":"iraq-to-recapture-ramadi-from-isis-within-days-iraqi-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/iraq-to-recapture-ramadi-from-isis-within-days-iraqi-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq to recapture Ramadi from ISIS ‘within days’: Iraqi PM"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Iraqi Prime Minister\u00a0Haider al-Abadi\u00a0says the country\u2019s security forces have made great advances in their efforts to take back the central city of Ramadi from the ISIS\u00a0militants and will recapture it \u201cwithin days\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI cannot give numbers, but at this very moment, since four days ago, five days ago when we lost Ramadi, we advanced quite greatly. I think, we have cut many kilometers, we have returned it back to us…\u00a0It will be within days, I can assure you,\u201d Haider al-Abadi said in a Monday interview with the state-run BBC.<\/p>\n

He also defended the Iraqi armed forces\u2019 endeavor in their fight against the ISIS, rejecting accusations by\u00a0the US Defense Secretary\u00a0Ashton Carter\u00a0that Iraq’s\u00a0security forces dodged fight in Ramadi.<\/p>\n

Carter on Sunday blamed the recent fall of large parts of Ramadi to ISIS on Iraqi government troops, saying that \u201cthe Iraqi forces just showed\u00a0no will to fight\u201d in the volatile city.<\/p>\n

Rejecting the criticism, Abadi expressed surprise at Carter\u2019s remarks and said, \u201cI am sure he was fed with the wrong information.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Iraqi prime minister further described the fall of the city as only “a tactical battle” and\u00a0not a sign that the ISIS are having the upper hand.<\/p>\n

Saad al-Hadithi, Abadi’s spokesman, also stressed that the US defense secretary is likely given \u201cincorrect information, because the situation on [the] ground is different,\u201d\u00a0adding that the whole Iraqi army should not be judged based on one incident.<\/p>\n

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On May 17, the ISIS militants managed to bring Ramadi, about 110 kilometers (68 miles) west of the\u00a0capital Baghdad, under their control.<\/p>\n

The Popular Mobilization forces, one of the volunteer groups that have joined the Iraqi army, were dispatched to Anbar after the Iraqi prime minister called on them to join the fight to drive the ISIS\u00a0militants out of Ramadi.<\/p>\n

Iraqi forces backed by Shia and Sunni volunteers have managed to recapture areas\u00a0east of Ramadi during the past few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Iraqi Prime Minister\u00a0Haider al-Abadi\u00a0says the country\u2019s security forces have made great advances in their efforts to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[6,4,14,356,15,5,7],"class_list":["post-2510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-defense","tag-iraq","tag-isis","tag-middle-east","tag-militants","tag-military","tag-u-s"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Iraqi-PM-Haider-al-Abadi.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-Eu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2516,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions\/2516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}