Iraq's Sunnis ready to fight IS group

"Ramadi is a strategic city for us, but we do not have enough elite
troops to achieve a victory there. So we withdrew a third of the troops
from there and redeployed them around Baghdad," the adviser said. The
adviser told Al Jazeera that maintaining control over Ramadi is a
"non-urgent" priority for the Iraqi government at this time.


The Islamic State group has swept through northern Iraq since it took
control of Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, in June. Islamic State
fighters routed Kurdish Peshmerga troops from towns that bordered the
northern Kurdish autonomous region, and at least 500,000 people have been displaced.



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