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Iraq's counter-terrorism forces have raised the Iraqi flag above the central government complex in the western city of Ramadi, a military spokesman said on Dec. 28, a day after the army declared victory over the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters there. 

Iraqi forces backed by U.S.-led coalition on Dec. 27 took control of the government complex in central Ramadi, the last Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) stronghold in the western city, a military spokesman said. 

Iraqi security forces advanced Dec. 22 into the center of Ramadi for a final push aimed at retaking the city they lost to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in May, officials said.

Turkey has pulled 350 troops back from the Turkish-Iraqi border after reaction from Baghdad over the deployment of more Turkish soldiers in Mosul. 

The troops were waiting on the border and will be sent to Iraq if Ankara and Baghdad agreed on the issue, sources told Hürriyet Daily News. 

Turkey has deployed nearly 600 troops to train Iraqi Sunni local guards in Mosul. 

At least 23 people were killed and 68 others wounded when three bombs went off in mainly Shi'ite neighborhoods in central Baghdad on Sept. 17, security and medical sources said. 

A suicide bomber in an explosives-rigged vehicle killed two Iraqi army generals north of the Anbar provincial capital Ramadi on Aug. 27, a military spokesman said.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi approved on Aug. 16 an investigative council's decision to refer military commanders to a court martial for abandoning their positions in the battle against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants in Ramadi.

More than 1,500 schools have been damaged or destroyed as a result of the conflict in Iraq's troubled Anbar province alone, a spokesman said on August 3.
 

Iraqi government forces recaptured a university campus yesterday on the outskirts of Ramadi from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), seizing a key position for any offensive to retake the city, officials said.

Iraqi forces had recaptured parts of Anbar University in May, shortly after losing the provincial capital to the jihadists, but later pulled back.

Iraqi security forces entered the University of Anbar in southern Ramadi on July 26 and clashed with Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants inside the compound, the joint operations command said in a statement broadcast on state television.