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Iraq's Abadi visits Ramadi after Islamic State defeat - security sources


    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi visited Ramadi on Tuesday, security sources said, a day after declaring the recapture of the western city from Islamic State following a months-long siege.

    The sources said Abadi, who arrived by helicopter with the province's top military commander at the Anbar University complex in the city's southern outskirts, would meet with army and counter-terrorism commanders.

    (Reporting by Ahmed Rasheed; Writing by Stephen Kalin; editing by John Stonestreet)