ERBIL, Kurdistan Region- The Anbar provincial council announced Wednesday that the war to retake Ramadi from the Islamic State (ISIS) has destroyed %80 of the city. Eid Amash, a spokesperson of the Anbar provincial council told Rudaw that some districts of Ramadi are yet to be cleared of ISIS militants by the army, large parts of the city have been reduced to rubble by more than two week of fighting between the two sides. Amash said that the province has agreements with some construction companies to rebuild the city once the hostilities are over. Video footage from inside Ramadi after it was taken back by the Iraqi forces on Monday shows immense destruction of homes and public buildings. Part of the destruction was caused by explosives and bombs planted by ISIS militants.
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