"Our forces are in complete control of the Iraqi-Syrian border and I, therefore, announce the end of the war against Daesh(ISIS)," Abadi told a conference in Baghdad, as cited by AFP.
In a separate statement, the Iraqi military declared the country “totally liberated” from ISIS.
ISIS seized control of swaths of Iraq and Syria in a lightning campaign in 2014, but in recent months has lost control of Mosul, its de-facto Iraqi capital, which was re-taken by Iraqi government forces in July after months of pitched battle. Raqqa, the organisation's Syrian base and self-declared capital, was retaken by Syrian Army in September.
Last month, Baghdad announced that its forces had driven ISIS from Rawa, the last Iraqi town near the Syrian border still was held by the group.
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9 December 2017 - 15:15
News ID: 871745
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced Saturday the “end of the war” against ISIS terrorist group in Iraq, and said that Iraqi forces had regained control of the country’s border with Syria.
