Sentence examples for ramadi area from inspiring English sources

February: Government troops expel last remaining Isis fighters from the Ramadi area.

Then they set up checkpoints and began engaging in gunfights with Qaeda cells in the Ramadi area.

About 24,000 people had been forced from their homes in three days of violence in the Ramadi area, said the International Organisation for Migration.

After the bombing of the truck in the Ramadi area in Iraq, an American tank dispatched to the scene sprayed a field of tall grass with heavy machine gunfire, killing no one, for there was no one there to kill.

Among Sunnis in the Ramadi area, two groups are competing for government jobs and power: the tribal leaders, who say they deserve the largess for helping to reduce the violence; and the established Sunni political parties, such as the Iraqi Islamic Party, whose members took on government roles after elections in December 2005.

The latest killings reported in the Ramadi area targeted the Al-Bu Fahd tribe.

In a statement, the council said about 3,000 Shia fighters had arrived in Anbar to take part in "the liberation of all Ramadi areas in which IS militants took positions".

The gains in Falluja, neighboring Ramadi and other areas in Anbar Province, once the most violent area in Iraq and the heart of the Sunni Arab insurgency, are often cited as a success story, a possible model for the rest of Iraq.

Tens of thousands of civilians have fled Ramadi and surrounding areas in the Euphrates River valley, exacerbating Iraq's crisis of displaced multitudes in the almost year-long battle against Islamic State.

"[Anti-ISIS] coalition and Iraqi forces have made tactical gains in Ramadi, Tikrit and areas around Baghdad," Harvey, who now studies ISIS as a researcher at the University of South Florida, told me.

Col. John Charlton, commander of the First Brigade Combat Team, Third Infantry Division, which oversees Ramadi and its surrounding area, also said there were plans to start moving policemen to new stations to dilute the tribal concentrations — a proposal that some local sheiks said they would be likely to resist.