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Iraq routed ISIS from Ramadi at a high cost: A city destroyed

By Susannah George, Desmond Butler and Maya Alleruzzo - Associated Press

In this Sunday, March 20, 2016 photo, two boys in a truck in a convoy of families fleeing Islamic State-held Hit, Iraq, wait at a checkpoint on the western edge of Ramadi, Iraq. Much of Iraq’s north and west fell to the Islamic State group in the summer of 2014, but over the past year Iraq’s military has slowly clawed back pockets of territory. While IS still controls a large swath of Iraq and neighboring Syria, the group has lost an estimated 40 percent of the territory it once held in Iraq, according to U.S.-led coalition officials. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Baghdad politics slows fight against IS in Anbar

By SUSANNAH GEORGE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016 file photo, American and Spanish trainers use live ammunition in training exercises at Basmaya base, 40 kilometers southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. U.S. and Iraqi officials cast Ramadi as proof that coalition training efforts have paid off and the Iraqi military has improved since its catastrophic collapse in the summer of 2014. But analysts and former US trainers say the fight that wrested the city from the Islamic State group highlights the military’s lingering shortcomings and isn’t a model for trying to retake the bigger prize, the IS-held city of Mosul. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim, File)

Iraq’s military is still struggling despite U.S. training

By SUSANNAH GEORGE - Associated Press

In a strategic and symbolic victory, soldiers raise Iraqi national flags at the government complex in central Ramadi on Monday after retaking it from the Islamic State. Militants occupied the capital of Anbar province since May. (Associated Press)

Islamic State driven from Ramadi by Iraq with U.S. help

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Iraqis rebuilt a bridge over the Euphrates River after the Islamic State destroyed all crossings leading to central Ramadi. The military reported progress Tuesday in its move to retake the provincial capital. (Associated Press)

U.S.-backed Iraqis aim to free Ramadi from ISIS

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford said that two Iraqi brigades molded by American troops are ready to enter the crucial city of Ramadi at a "much higher level" than other such mobilized units. (Associated Press)

Pentagon says Ramadi operation imminent to retake city from Islamic State

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Lt. Gen. Robert Neller

Robert Neller says Russia is a threat, but it doesn’t want to fight U.S.

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter pauses as he speaks with media on a military aircraft after departing Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, July 22, 2015, en route Amman, Jordan. While in Jiddah Carter met with Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdul Aziz and other Saudi officials. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, Pool)

Ashton Carter arrives in Iraqi capital on unannounced visit

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

In this photo taken May 6, 2015, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Obama administration is nearing a decision on how to improve and accelerate training of Iraqi security forces in light of recent setbacks against the Islamic State, including the possibility of new training camps that likely would require a bigger U.S. troop presence, U.S. officials said Tuesday. Dempsey said he has recommended changes to President Barack Obama but he offered no assessment of when decisions would be made. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Martin Dempsey: New U.S. hub in Iraq could be model

By Robert Burns and Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

US President Barack Obama pauses as he participates in a bilateral meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi during the G-7 summit in Schloss Elmau hotel near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany, Monday, June 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama admits: We don’t have a complete strategy to fight Islamic State

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Islamic State group members hold up their weapons and wave its flags on their vehicles in a convoy on a road leading to Iraq, while riding in Raqqa city in Syria. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Petraeus: U.S. ‘probably losing’ right now in fight against Islamic State

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Displaced civilians from Ramadi and surrounding areas stand in a camp in the town of Amiriyat al-Fallujah, west of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 22, 2015. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Senior Islamic State cleric, ‘the blind judge,’ gives speech in Ramadi

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Local residents and Sunni tribal fighters welcome newly arriving Iraqi Shiite Hezbollah Brigade militiamen, brandishing their flag, who are joining the fight against Islamic State group militants in Khalidiya, 100 kilometers (60 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo)

White House sidesteps defense secretary’s comments on Iraqi forces

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Civilians flee their hometown of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's Anbar province, 115 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad, Monday, May 18, 2015. Islamic State militants searched door-to-door for policemen and pro-government fighters and threw bodies in the Euphrates River in a bloody purge Monday after capturing the strategic city of Ramadi, their biggest victory since overrunning much of northern and western Iraq last year. (AP Photo)

EDITORIAL: Ramadi spells disaster in Iraq

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Iraqis from Ramadi gathered at the Bzebiz bridge after fleeing Ramadi and spending the night walking toward Baghdad on Saturday. Islamic State militants seized the center of their city in western Iraq, but U.S. officials say the takeover is only temporary. (Associated Press)

Islamic State seizes Ramadi, Iraq, counters U.S. claim terrorist group on defensive

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Islamic State militants raise their flag as they patrol in a commandeered Iraqi military vehicle in Fallujah, Iraq. (Associated Press)

‘Difficult to assess’ if Islamic State operating in Libya, Afghanistan: White House

By Ben Wolfgang and Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Asmar Abboud, 31, wounded in a bombing attack on Shiite pilgrims on Saturday, is treated at a hospital in Basra, Iraq, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

Gunmen storm Iraq compound, kill 7 police

By Bushra Juhi - Associated Press