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BAGHDAD (AP) — The Latest on developments in Iraq (all times local): 
  
 1:10 p.m. 
  
 Iraq's Ministry of Defense says Iraqi forces backed by U.S.-led coalition have liberated the last Iraqi town held by Islamic State group. 
  
 The ministry said in a statement Friday morning that Iraqi military units and local tribal fighters entered the western neighborhoods of Rawah on the Euphrates River in the western province of Anbar. Officials then announced that forces had taken control of the town. 
  
 IS fighters swept across Iraq's north and west in the summer of 2014 capturing Iraq's second largest city of Mosul and advancing to the edges of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Later that year the U.S. began a campaign of airstrikes against the militants that fueled Iraqi territorial gains, allowing the military to retake Mosul in July of this year. 
  
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 11:59 a.m. 
  
 Iraq's Defense Ministry says Iraqi forces backed by the U.S.-led coalition have pushed into the last Islamic State group-held town in the country more than three years after the militant group stormed nearly a third of Iraqi territory. 
  
 The ministry says in a statement Friday morning Iraqi military units and local tribal fighters entered the western neighborhoods of Rawah on the Euphrates River in the western province of Anbar. 
  
 IS fighters swept across Iraq's north and west in the summer of 2014 capturing Iraq's second largest city of Mosul and advancing to the edges of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. Later that year the U.S. began a campaign of airstrikes against the militants that fueled Iraqi territorial gains, allowing the military to retake Mosul in July of this year. ||||| (CNN) US Secretary of Defense James Mattis, on a whistlestop tour of Iraq, said the defeat of ISIS is now imminent and he is confident US-backed Iraqi forces will finish off fighters in their last remaining strongholds in the country. 
  
 "ISIS is on the run and they have been shown to be unable to stand up to our team, have not retaken one inch of ground," he told reporters during a briefing in Bagdhad. 
  
 Iraqi forces, backed by Shiite fighters from the Popular Mobilization Forces, advance towards the Iraqi city of Tal Afar 
  
 "A year ago the liberation of Mosul was just some ideas and lines in paper, the liberation of Raqqa was not even that," said Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, commander of the Combined Joint Task Force in Iraq. 
  
 "This week saw the start of Tal Afar after the hard-won victory in Mosul. We've seen our Iraqi partners quickly refit and transition their force into a new defensive in Tal Afar. In Syria we're in our third month to defeat ISIS. Daesh's defeat is inevitable. They are surrounded and cut off but their cruelty continues to shine through as they hide among women and children," he said. 
  
 Read More ||||| Story highlights Operation pushed ISIS from their last known location in Iraq 
  
 The militant group once controlled more than 34,000 square miles of territory 
  
 (CNN) Iraqi forces have retaken the town of Rawa from ISIS, one of the militant group's last footholds in the country. 
  
 The Iraqi national flag was raised over Rawa around midday Friday, Iraq's Joint Operation Command (IJOC) said in a statement. 
  
 A spokesman for the command told CNN that engineers laid down a pontoon bridge across the Euphrates River around dawn to allow Iraqi forces to cross near the outskirts of the town. 
  
 Iraqi forces with @coalition support announce the liberation of #Rawa in #Anbar province, among the last populated areas in #Iraq held by #ISIS terrorists. Days of its phony "caliphate" are coming to an end. — Brett McGurk (@brett_mcgurk) November 17, 2017 
  
 Located in Anbar province in the Euphrates valley, Rawa was the last known Iraqi town still held by ISIS militants. Recapturing it means ISIS has been defeated in all of the country's towns and cities, though pockets of resistance still exist and the group does control some territory in the deserts of western Iraq. 
  
 Haider Al-Abadi, the commander in chief of Iraq's armed forces, said in a statement the "liberation of Rawa district in mere hours reflects the great strength and power of our heroic armed forces and the successful planning for battles." |||||
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Iraq's Ministry of Defense says Iraqi forces backed by a US-led coalition have liberated the last Iraqi town held by the Islamic State group, per the AP. The ministry said in a statement Friday morning that Iraqi military units and local tribal fighters entered the western neighborhoods of Rawah on the Euphrates River in the western province of Anbar. Officials then announced that forces had taken control of the town; per the Iraqi Joint Operations Command, the Iraqi national flag was raised over the city by midday Friday, CNN reports. A command spokesman says engineers placed a pontoon bridge so that Iraqi forces could cross the Euphrates. ISIS fighters swept across Iraq's north and west in the summer of 2014, capturing Iraq's second largest city of Mosul and advancing to the edges of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Later that year the US began a campaign of airstrikes against the militants that fueled Iraqi territorial gains, allowing the military to retake Mosul in July of this year. Back in August, Defense Secretary James Mattis said, "ISIS is on the run and they have been shown to be unable to stand up to our team." Per CNN, there are still some pockets of resistance, with ISIS controlling certain territory in the deserts in the western part of the country, but it no longer controls any towns or cities.