Iraqi PM raises flag in border area taken from Islamic State
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BAGHDAD - Iraq's prime minister has raised the Iraqi flag at a border crossing with Syria days after Iraqi forces retook it from the Islamic State group.
According to Al-Iraqiya TV, Haider al-Abadi visited the newly-liberated town of Qaim and the nearby Husaybah border crossing in far western Iraq on Sunday. Both sit along what was once an important supply route used by ISIS when the group controlled large areas in Syria and Iraq.
Iraqi forces backed by the US-led coalition drove ISIS from Qaim and surrounding areas last week, in what coalition officials said marked the end of the conventional war against the extremist group in Iraq.
