Troops raise Iraqi flag over recaptured central government complex but fighting for full control of city continues.

Iraqi forces claimed victory over the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Ramadi as clearing operations were under way to flush out the armed group’s remaining fighters in the key city, Al-Jazeera television reported on 28 Dec 2015 .
Ramadi, the capital of the Anbar province, fell to ISIL in May in an embarrassing setback for Iraqi forces.
Analysts say recapturing the provincial capital, which is just 100km west of Baghdad, could deprive ISIL of its biggest prize of 2015.
“By controlling the complex this means that we have defeated them in Ramadi,” said Sabah al-Numani, a spokesman for government forces.
“The next step is to clear pockets that could exist here or there in the city.”
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi vowed to free the whole country from ISIL in 2016.
“If 2015 was a year of liberation, 2016 will be the year of great victories, terminating the presence of Daesh [ISIL] in Iraq and Mesopotamia,” he said in a televised address. “We are coming to liberate Mosul, which will be the fatal blow to Daesh.”
Mark Kimmitt, a former US assistant secretary of political and military affairs, said recapturing Ramadi was just a small part of defeating ISIL
“The Iraqi army has improved but to take Ramadi is going to take thousands and thousands of soldiers, and one question is whether those soldiers are ready at this point,” Kimmitt told Al Jazeera.