Iraqi general: Battle with ISIL is over

An Iraqi senior military commander mentioned his nation’s battle in opposition to the Islamic Notify of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) crew is over.

In an announcement on Saturday, Lt General Abdul Ameer Rasheed Yarallah mentioned that armed operations in opposition to the opponents occupy ended after Iraqi forces regained aid watch over of the nation’s border with Syria.

« All Iraqi lands are liberated from terrorist Daesh gangs and our forces completely aid watch over the international Iraqi-Syrian borders, » Yarallah mentioned in an announcement, utilizing the Arabic acronym for ISIL, moreover known as ISIS.

ISIL opponents conquered almost a third of Iraqi territory, alongside with the nation’s 2nd largest city Mosul, within the summer of 2014.

Throughout the last three and a half years, Iraqi floor forces backed by the US-led coalition occupy recaptured the total territory once held by the opponents.