Rawa

Rawa or Rawah is an Iraqi city at the Euphrates river. It lies at the north financial institution of the river, upstream through approx. 20 kilometers from the an awful lot larger metropolis of Anah. People from this city are acknowledged by way of the appellation Rawi or surname al-Rawi. The New York Times stated in 2014 that the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant or ISIL additionally called ISIS managed the town. The Iraqi offensive to recapture the city became launched on 11 November 2017, as a part of the Western Iraq marketing campaign. Iraqi forces captured Rawa on 17 november.

The Western Iraq marketing campaign became the very last primary military operation of the Iraqi Civil War, inside the western province of Anbar, and on the border with Syria, with the purpose of completely expelling ISIL forces from its closing strongholds in Iraq. The cities of western Anbar had been captured by using the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in 2014.