Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory over Islamic State in the city of Hawija, one of the militant group’s two remaining strongholds in the country.
BAGHDAD—Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Thursday declared victory over Islamic State in the city of Hawija, one of the militant group’s two remaining strongholds in the country.
Islamic State has used Hawija as a platform to threaten both Iraq’s oil-rich northern city Kirkuk and its semiautonomous Kurdish region. A concurrent operation against the extremists is under way in Anbar province, as Iraq battles to drive the militants from the few areas of the country they still control. …
