The Iraqi Army said it launched an assault on Friday on the small town of Rawa in the Euphrates Valley, the last in the country still held by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL). “Operations to liberate Rawa began at dawn,” the Joint Operations Command said in a statement. The Syrian Army battled for a second day to retake the town of Albu Kamal just across the border, AFP reports. The military predicted that the battle for Rawa would be swift as “the majority of IS fighters who were in the town have fled toward the Syrian border.”