BAGHDAD (AP) — The advance of Iraqi forces into the heart of Ramadi, a restive city that fell to the Islamic State group earlier this year, in some ways vindicated the U.S.-led coalition's strategy for rolling back the extremists — but victory has come at a high cost, and the same tactics might not work elsewhere.
The battle for Ramadi was waged by the Iraqi military — rather than Shiite or Kurdish militias — with elite counterterrorism units advancing under the cover of coalition airstrikes and raising the Iraqi national flag over the main government complex in the provincial capital on Monday.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will ring in the first full week of the new year with a campaign stop in Lowell.
According to the Trump campaign, the candidate will host a rally Monday, Jan. 4 at the Paul E. Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell. The event will begin at 7 p.m.
