Meanwhile Hezbollah Brigades, Harakat al Nujaba and other groups of Iraqi popular forces have been deployed around the Iraqi city of Fallujah to begin a massive attack on ISIL terrorists.

Sheikh Akram al Kaabi, the leader of Hezbollah al-Nujaba, a major Iraqi Shiite resistance movement fighting the Daesh (ISIL or Islamic State), announced that over a dozen groups of volunteer forces have laid siege on the city of Fallujah from different directions.

"A sum of 13 volunteer groups are taking part in the operations to seize back Fallujah city and have laid siege on the ISIL from four different directions," al-Kaabi said on Saturday.

He noted that the Hashd al Shaabi security forces have established a security belt around al Garmeh region and have asked the residents of Fallujah to leave the city very soon in a bid to allow them defeat the ISIL terrorists.

PICS: Iraqi Popular Forces Preparing for Fallujah Offensive

On Friday, the Iraqi volunteer forces Spokesman Karim al Nouri disclosed that the massive military operation to win back Fallujah is very near, adding that they have already laid siege on the city in Anbar province from different directions.

"The Hashd al Shaabi forces have besieged the terrorists in Fallujah city from four directions," al-Nouri told FNA.He, meantime,reiterated that the whole operation to liberating Fallujah is under Hashd al Shaabi's command".

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