(VOVworld) - Iraqi forces aided by the US-led coalition have retaken half the territory IS once held in Iraq, Deputy US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday during his visit to Baghdad.
 

Iraqi soldiers in Baghdad on Sep 13, 2016

He also announced $181 million to address a humanitarian crisis in Iraq. IS swept across northern and western Iraq in the summer of 2014, and at that time it controlled one third of Iraq’s territory.