ADtv @JamaliahYusofYacob - Jalan-jalan-veteran, kenderaan robek kulit dan penduduk tempatan yang masih ingat kekejaman ISIS - krew RT melawat bandar baru-baru ini dibebaskan Kasiba, yang perlahan-lahan kembali kembali kepada kehidupan.
Pekan kecil Kabisa (Kubaysah) di daerah Heet di wilayah Anbar telah ditawan oleh tentera Negara Islam (IS) pada bulan Oktober 2014.
Terletak hanya 65 km dari bandar Ramadi, ibu Anbar itu, bandar ini kekal di bawah pemerintahan pelampau selama kira-kira 1.5 tahun sehingga ditawan kembali pada Mac 2016.
Life after ISIS: RT travels to recently liberated town
Of Kabisa, Iraq (EXCLUSIVE) . . .
Battle-scarred streets, shelled vehicles and local residents who still remember ISIS brutality – an RT crew visited the recently-liberated town of Kasiba, which is slowly returning back to life.
The small town of Kabisa (Kubaysah) in the Heet district of the Anbar province was captured by Islamic State forces back in October 2014.
Located only 65 km from the city of Ramadi, Anbar’s capital city, the town remained under the rule of the extremists for about 1.5 years until its liberation in March 2016.
Kamera dirakam bangunan dan kereta yang telah dibrobek kulit nampaknya semasa berdiri di antara militan negara Islam (IS) dan tentera Iraq.
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Para jurutera terus untuk membersihkan bandar daripada periuk api dan bahan letupan buatan sendiri supaya penduduk tempatan akan selamat kembali ke rumah mereka.
Semua tanda-tanda menunjukkan bahawa jihadis adalah tergesa-gesa meninggalkan bandar yang dikepung, wartawan RT Arabic Ashraf Al Azzawi melaporkannya.
Golongan pelampau walaupun meninggalkan pakaian, senjata, bahan letupan buatan sendiri mereka, seperti yang dilihat dalam video yang dirakam oleh RT.
Cameras captured buildings and cars which were shelled apparently during the stand-off between the Islamic state militants and Iraqi army.
The engineers continue to clear the town from land mines and homemade explosive so that local residents would return safely to their homes.
All signs pointed that the jihadists were in a hurry leaving the besieged town, RT Arabic correspondent Ashraf Al Azzawi reported.
The extremists even left their clothes, weapons, homemade explosives, as seen in the video captured by RT.
Kebanyakan bom itu dineutralkan oleh tentera Iraq, Ahmad Turki, seorang askar daripada perkhidmatan kecemasan.
"Dan bunyinya Majoriti penduduk tempatan adalah selamat. Life retunes secara beransur-ansur di sini. Semua orang gembira bahawa bandar yang telah dibebaskan dari Negara Islam (IS)."
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Penduduk tempatan juga kelihatan gembira untuk kembali ke rumah mereka walaupun mereka sebahagian atau hampir dimusnahkan oleh pelampau.
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"Alhamdulillah yang tentera Iraq membebaskan kita dari pengecut ISIS. Kami berharap dengan pembebas segala-galanya yang baik akan kembali [sendiri] ke bandar, "penduduk tempatan Muhammad Aysh memberitahu RT.
Ini bukan bandar Iraq pertama yang mengalami kemusnahan Negara Islam (IS) yang telah dikunjungi oleh krew RT. Pada bulan Februari, RT pergi ke kota-kota Fallujah dan Ramadi, yang hanya sebahagiannya dibebaskan oleh tentera Iraq.
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Kumpulan Negara Islam (IS) muncul di Iraq kembali pada tahun 2013 sebagai sekutu Al-Qaeda. Organisasi ini menjadi berita utama pada tahun 2014 apabila ia menyerang wilayah Kurdis-diadakan di bahagian utara Iraq dan merampas wilayah di kawasan tengah Sunni Iraq, termasuk bandar-bandar di Mosul dan Tikrit.
Pada Ogos 2014, ADALAH dikawal hampir satu 1/3 daripada Iraq. Walau bagaimanapun, tentera Iraq telah berkata bahawa mereka membuat kemenangan baru-baru ini dengan bantuan sokongan udara pakatan diketuai Amerika Syarikat itu.
Most of the bombs were neutralized by Iraqi forces, Ahmad Turki, a soldier from emergency services said.
“The majority of the local residents are safe and sound. Life retunes gradually here. Everyone is happy that that town has been liberated from Islamic State.”
Local residents also seem happy about returning to their homes even if they were partially or almost destroyed by the extremists.
“Thank God that Iraqi forces liberated us from ISIS cowards. We hope that with the liberators everything good will return to [own] town,” local resident Muhammad Aysh told RT.
This is not the first Iraqi town which suffered from Islamic State’s destruction that was visited by an RT crew. In February, RT travelled to the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi, which were only partially liberated by Iraqi forces.
Once prosperous places the cities looked like ghost towns – cars hit by artillery shells and dilapidated buildings where people once lived and prayed looked like scenes from a post-apocalyptic movie.
Islamic State group emerged in Iraq back in 2013 as an Al-Qaeda affiliate. The organization made headlines in 2014 when it attacked Kurdish-held territory in the northern part of Iraq and seized territories in Iraq’s Sunni heartland, including the cities of Mosul and Tikrit.
By August of 2014, IS controlled nearly a third of Iraq. However, Iraqi forces have said that they are making gains recently with the help of the US-led coalition’s air support.
