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The Obama administration has released data it says supports claims that U.S. air strikes in Iraq are rolling back last year’s offensive by Islamic State if Iraq and Levant (ISIL).

A detailed White House fact sheet  released last week during the visit to the White House by Iraq Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi reported that over 1,900 U.S.-led airstrikes have hit ISIL targets in Iraq, and claimed that as a result the terror group has lost between 25 to 30 percent of its control over populated areas it had controlled.

Iraqi officials however have warned that the major city of Ramadi is in danger of falling to ISIL forces.

The U.S.-led coalition that is targeting the ISIL militants carried out 13 air strikes in Syria and Iraq in the past 24-hour period ending on April 19.

U.S. officials in the Combined Joint Task Force said in a statement that 12 of the strikes were in Iraq while only one was in Syria.

The strikes hit ISIL sniper positions, weapons platforms, vehicles and facilities near the Iraqi cities of Bayji, Fallujah, Kirkuk, Ramadi, and Sinjar according to the statement.

It added that near the Syrian city of Al-Hasakah, an air strike destroyed an ISIL fighting position.

The coalition has been carrying out strikes since September in a bid to reverse the gains made by ISIL fighters in Iraq and Syria.

Coalition officials say the ISIL has been stopped and pushed back in many areas due to a combination of air strikes and attacks by Iraqi security forces.

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