Backs against the wall: Iraqi soldiers hold a post as they fire towards Islamic State positions in the Garma district of Anbar province

Counter-offensive: Iraqi troops and allied paramilitary forces have massed around Ramadi, looking for swift action to drive the terror group out before it builds up defences

Resistance: Shi'ite fighters from the popular committees hold a post as they fire towards Islamic State in the Garma district of Anbar province west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday he was 'absolutely confident' the situation could be reversed within days.
In the other half of the terror group's self-proclaimed 'caliphate', a monitoring group said US-led air strikes in the northeastern Syrian region of Hasakeh had killed 170 IS militants in 48 hours.
Anbar police chief Kadhim al-Fahdawi said a large number of well-prepared troops were positioned in Husaybah, about seven kilometres (less than five miles) east of Ramadi.
'This area will be the starting point for the operations to liberate the cities of Anbar,' he said. 
But much planning remains to be done before Iraqi forces attempt to move back into Ramadi, a large town on the Euphrates about 100 kilometres west of Baghdad.
'The military operation to liberate Ramadi and Anbar will not start until all the requirements are met,' Fahdawi said.
Analysts say Washington's strategy of carrying out air strikes while the Iraqi military is trained up has shown its limits. 

An Iraqi soldier gives water to a displaced woman at the outskirts of Baghdad. Iraqi security forces on Tuesday deployed tanks and artillery around Ramadi to confront ISIS fighters after they took the city
After holding on for a year and a half, during which the jihadists never managed to take full control of the city, Iraqi security forces pulled out of their last bases on Sunday.
The retreat was chaotic, with groups of fighters leaving without command approval and others left stranded by their comrades.
At least 28 of them were plucked to safety in a dramatic helicopter rescue, footage of which has been aired on state TV, but many were killed and more are still missing.
The withdrawal also raised the question of the effective control the command had over its men and Iraq's cabinet on Tuesday suggested the defence of Ramadi had been less than heroic and could have been avoided.
In its cabinet meeting decisions, it supported 'honouring the fighters who resisted the terrorist attacks and imposing the toughest punishment on the recalcitrants, whose attitude had consequences for Ramadi'. 
According to an official in the Anbar governor's office, at least 500 fighters and civilians were killed in the three-day blitz leading to Ramadi's fall.
ISIS released pictures of the spoils they retrieved from abandoned government bases, including tanks, armoured personnel carriers and other vehicles, as well as weapons and ammunition.
The group also released pictures of the moment when its fighters freed prisoners held at a counterterrorism detention facility.
According to the International Organisation for Migration, fighting has forced 40,000 people from their homes, the second time in a month Ramadi residents had to flee.
'Thousands of people had to sleep in the open because they didn't have places to stay,' said the UN's humanitarian coordinator, Lise Grande.
Officials said five displaced people, including two children, died Tuesday at the Bzeibez bridge where thousands have been waiting to cross into Baghdad governorate.相关的主题文章：


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