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Iraq forces storm northern Mosul amid anti-Daesh op.
[AA.TR] Iraqi forces on Sunday pushed deeper into northern djinn-infested Mosul... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... as part of an ongoing offensive to retake the city from the ISIS terrorist group. "Army forces have stormed al-Sada district, the first residential neighborhood in northern Mosul," army officer Ahmed al-Jabouri of the Nineveh Operations Command told Anadolu Agency. "Our forces are engaged in street battles with ISIS Lion of Islams" in the district, he said. Last month, the Iraqi army -- backed by U.S.-led coalition In mid-2014, ISIS captured Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, before overrunning vast swathes of territory in the country’s north and west. Recent months have seen the Iraqi army, backed by local allies on the ground and the U.S.-led air coalition, retake much territory. According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), more than 22,000 people have been displaced since the beginning of the anti-ISIS operations. Posted by: Fred 2016-11-07 |
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