Iraqi forces said today (November 25, 2017) that Islamic State (IS) group fighters are withdrawing deep into the desert to escape an offensive aimed at a final defeat of the jihadists, according to the AFP (Agence France-Presse) website.
IS has already been driven out of all the Iraqi towns it once held, but Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has said he will not proclaim victory until the jihadists have been cleared from the western desert bordering Syria.
The Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization) paramilitary force said its fighters had taken control of 77 villages and hamlets since the launch of the offensive on November 23.
At its peak in 2014, IS ruled over seven million people in a territory as large as Italy encompassing large parts of Syria and nearly a third of Iraq.
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