“U.S. officials are living in a dream world if they think they have got the so-called Islamic State on the run. Whenever the militants are forced back, they bounce straight back. Another battle and another chaotic retreat has been made by Iraqi government forces, who abandoned their positions in Ramadi, the provincial capital of Anbar province, despite U.S. air support and a last-minute appeal by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who called on his soldiers to ‘hold their positions.’”
Source: ISIS Counterpunch Stuns U.S. and Iraq – The Daily Beast