IS now controls less than seven percent of Iraq: army

Baghdad: The Islamic State group now controls less than seven percent of Iraq, down from the 40 percent it held nearly three years ago, a military spokesman said Tuesday.

"IS controlled 40 percent of Iraqi land" in 2014, Brigadier General Yahya Rasool, the spokesman of the Joint Operations Command coordinating the anti-IS effort, told reporters.

"As of March 31 (this year), they only held 6.8 percent of Iraqi territory," he said.