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Ramadi the size of Sinjar, coalition
Continued from page 10
Off to the side, one of his
men unrolls a map and
reads out coordinates to
someone speaking in Aus-
tralian-accented English
on the other end of the
line.
“We thought it was going
to be easier because we
have airstrikes and air sup-
port,” Barwari said, refer-
ring to the intense waves
of coalition bombing that
paved the way for his
forces’ initial advance in
western Ramadi. “But now,
when the pilot sees civil-
ians, they don’t strike.”
Unlike other Iraqi cities like
Tikrit and Beiji, where troops
have pushed out the mili-
tants, thousands of civilians
remained in Ramadi under
months of IS rule. While the
U.S.-trained counterter-
rorism forces are the most
effective unit in the Iraqi
military, they still largely de- nated Anbar province.
pend on air support to re-
take ground.
In Soufiya, on the north-
eastern edge of the city
center, Barwari’s men
slowly comb blocks of low-
rise homes surrounded by
palm trees. Above them,
two Iraqi military helicop-
ters circle along the front
line, firing in advance of
comrades in a dozen Hum-
vees. By that afternoon,
only a single coalition air-
strike had targeted the
front line.
On the day before the fall
of Sinjar, coalition planes
launched 24 airstrikes on
the town in 24 hours. In
Ramadi, a city five times
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