All IS fighters have left Ramadi compound: Iraq army spokesman
The IS group had declared a self-styled caliphate on the territory under its control.
Baghdad: The Islamic State group's fighters have all left the flashpoint former government compound in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, the spokesman of the elite counter-terrorism service said Sunday.
"All Daesh (IS) fighters have left. There is no resistance," Sabah al-Numan said, adding that the entire perimeter had to be cleared of mines and booby traps before troops could move in.
"Our forces have surrounded the government complex. They are checking all entrances and surrounding buildings before moving in," he said. "The operation is almost wrapped up. Our forces will enter in the coming hours," Numan said.
Iraqi forces backed by US-led coalition air strikes had punched into the city centre on Tuesday, in a final push to retake the city they lost in May.
The fighting over the past two days had been concentrated around the former government complex, which IS fighters defended with snipers, suicide car bomb attacks and hundreds of roadside bombs and booby traps.
Iraq launched the long-awaited operation to retake the Anbar provincial capital, which was captured by IS militants in May, but after an initial push across the Euphrates River, their progress stalled.
On Tuesday, Iraqi security forces reported progress in recapturing some areas in the western city of Ramadi, 130 kilometers (80 miles) west of Baghdad, from IS militants.
The extremists control large swaths of land in western and northern Iraq and in neighboring Syria. The IS group has declared a self-styled caliphate on the territory under its control.
After overrunning Ramadi, IS destroyed all the bridges around the city. It also demolished the Anbar operations command center and fanned out into the city's residential areas to set up less conspicuous centers of command.