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    ISIS's Last Stand Falls In Iraq, Prime Minister Says

    After a three-and-a-half year fight, Haider al-Abadi announced Saturday Iraqi forces had retaken the group's final stronghold along the Syrian border.
    by Amy Held Dec 09, 2017 2 minutes
    Thousands of Iraqi soldiers in Baghdad take part in a training exercise in 2015. On Saturday, the Iraqi prime minister announced its war on the Islamic State group was over, after more than three years of fighting.

    Iraq declared victory over the Islamic State Saturday after its forces drove out the group from its final area of control along the Syrian border, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told a conference in Baghdad.

    "Our heroic armed forces have now secured the entire length of the Iraq-Syria border,". "We defeated Daesh through our unity and sacrifice for the nation. Long live Iraq and its people."

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