In December of 2015, the Iraqi Army retook Ramadi from Islamic State. Eighty percent of the city of five hundred thousand lay in ruins, and many of its buildings were laced with IEDs and booby traps. The first Iraqi teams sent in to demine the buildings suffered 80 percent casualties.
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/exclusive-inside-kurdistans-anti-isis-training-camps-17155
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