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Battle for Mosul: ISIS mines bridges over Tigris
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] ISIS faceless myrmidons have placed several mines over bridges and main roads in the eastern part of djinn-infested Mosul... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and have called for reinforcements from Raqqa, several media reports have suggested. US-backed Iraqi forces fought their way inside two villages on Monday as they crept closer to Mosul a week into an offensive to retake the ISIS-held city, but they also faced questions over a suspected Until now, most of the fighting has been in largely uninhabited towns and villages, but Iraqi special forces found more than 70 civilians sheltering in Tob Zawa. They will encounter many more civilians as they get closer to Mosul, still home to more than one million people. ISIS has suffered a series of setbacks in the past year, and Mosul is its last major urban bastion in Iraq. Kurds capture village near Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Kurdish Peshmerga forces managed to liberate a village in the area of Nuran, northeast of Mosul, after days of siege, Al Mada Press reported on Tuesday. The Iraqi media outlet stated, “This morning, Kurdish Peshmerga forces managed to liberate Khorsabad village in Nuran area, northeast of Mosul, from the ISIS control.” “The security forces besieged the village for several days before storming into it,” Al Mada added. “The military engineering brigades started to dismantle the improvised explosive devices left by the ISIS in the village,” Al Mada explained. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced in 17 October 2016, launching the battle to liberate the city of Mosul from the control of ISIS. The ISIS imposed its control on the city of Mosul in June 2014, and then extended its terrorist activities to other areas of Iraq. Posted by: Fred 2016-10-26 |
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