IS takeover of Ramadi a 'setback': US military

May 18, 2015 23:12

The US military said today the fall of Ramadi to the Islamic State group was "a setback" but vowed the Iraqi government backed by American air power would eventually seize back control of the western city.

"We've said all along that there are going to be ebbs and flows. This is a difficult, complex, bloody fight," Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steven Warren told reporters.

"And there's going to be victories and setbacks. And this is a setback," Warren told reporters.

Citing reports of atrocities by the jihadists in Ramadi, Warren said civilians living in the city now faced the IS group's "trademark brutality."

"That said, we will retake Ramadi," he said.

"We will retake it in the same way we are slowly but surely retaking other parts of Iraq, and that is with Iraqi ground forces combined with coalition air power."

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