Monday, 18 January 2016

Iraqi City of Ramadi, Once Home to 500,000, Lies in Ruins

Iraqi City of Ramadi, Once Home to 500,000, Lies in Ruins

So complete was the destruction of Ramadi that a local reporter who had visited the city many times hardly recognized it. "Honestly, this is the main street," Amaj Hamid, a member of Iraq's elite counterterrorism forces, told the TV crew as they entered from the southwest. He swerved to avoid the aftermath of months of fighting: rubble, overturned cars and piles of twisted metal. Airstrikes and homemade bombs laid by the Islamic State group had shredded the,,,
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