ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Iraq’s interior ministry on Sunday announced the recapture of some areas of Anbar province from the so-called Islamic State (ISIS).

“The security forces have cleared the areas of Hamra, the Hamra military base, the villages of Albudilf, Abu Isa, and Malani in the Garma region in the west of Anbar province,” the ministry said in a statement.

In a separate announcement, the Baghdad Operations Command spokesman announced other areas in Anbar were retaken by the Special Rapid Intervention Force.

Saad Maan told Rudaw that the forces had “managed to retake control of the areas of Zajaliya, Maqalih Hasur and Takrir in the Tigris river area of Anbar province, and that several militants were killed in the fighting.

Iraq’s Shiite-led government is in the midst of a campaign to liberate Anbar, the country’s largest province.

ISIS still is in control of the provincial capital of Ramadi and its outskirts, which it captured in mid-May, sending Iraqi forces racing out of the city in a major loss despite the support of US-led airstrikes targeting the extremists.