Military offensives launched against IS in Iraqi provinces
 

Baghdad, May 26 (IANS) Iraqi security forces on Tuesday commenced two military offensives to drive out Islamic State (IS) militants from Anbar's provincial capital city of Ramadi and the remaining parts of Salahudin province, a militia spokesman said. The Iraqi army, police and allied Sunni and Shiite militias, k**wn as Hashd Shaabi (Popular Mobilization), advanced in the early hours of the day from their positions toward the IS-held city of Ramadi, some 110 km west of the Iraq's capital Baghdad, Ahmed al-Asadi, spokesman of the Hashd Shaabi, said in a press conference broadcast by the state-run channel of Iraqiya.

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