Iraqi forces say they’re set to take the last patch of territory back from ISIS

By Maher Chmaytelli Reuters

Posted October 25, 2017 1:23 am

Updated October 25, 2017 1:26 am

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Smoke rises while Iraqi security forces use bombs as Kurdish security forces withdraw from a checkpoint in Alton Kupri, outskirts of Irbil, Iraq, Friday Oct. 20, 2017. A Baghdad court issued an arrest warrant for the vice president of Iraq's autonomous northern Kurdish region on Thursday for saying that Iraqi forces had "occupied" the disputed province of Kirkuk this week. AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed

Iraqi forces are about to launch an offensive to recapture the last patch of Iraq’s territory still in the hands of the Islamic State militant group, a military statement said on Wednesday.

“Your security forces are now coming to liberate you,” said leaflets dropped by the Iraqi air force on the western border region of al-Qaim and Rawa, according to a statement from the Joint Operations Command in Baghdad.