Abdol-Mohsen Moussa, commander of the Iraqi Army’s 14th Brigade, said the Daesh terrorists’ access to Fallujah, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad, have been blocked by the Iraqi forces, according to al-Ahed news website.
Meanwhile, Ahmad al-Assadi, speaker for the Iraqi volunteer forces, known as the Popular Mobilization Units or Hashid al-Shaabi, announced that Fallujah has been completely besieged by the Iraqi forces.
The operation for recapturing Fallujah has been 60 to 70 percent accomplished by now, he noted, adding that only the city center remains to be liberated by the military forces.
Led by the elite counter-terrorism service (CTS), Iraq's best trained and most seasoned fighting unit, the Iraqi army entered Fallujah on May 30 in a major offensive that began a week earlier.
In January 2014, Fallujah became the first Iraqi city to fall under the control of the terrorists, six months before they declared a caliphate over territory seized in Iraq and Syria.