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LIVE UPDATES: Battle for Mosul, Day 34
[RUDAW.NET] 6:54 PMShiite force: ISIS has shut down all major installations in Tal Afar The state-backed Hashd al-Shaabi said ISIS has shut down all of its major installations in Tal Afar, a town west of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... on which the Shiite paramilitary force says it is advancing. "ISIS has shut down all its main bases in Tal Afar," the Hashd al-Shaabi said on its official website, days after reporting that its forces had taken over the town’s airport. The paramilitaries, who have been fighting west of Mosul, say they have cut the ISIS route from Mosul to the city of Raqqa in Syria, which the holy warriors claim as the capital of their so-called caliphate. ------ 6:36 PM Iraqi forces liberate two more Mosul neighborhoods MOSUL, Iraq ‐ The Iraqi Army announced it has reclaimed the Moalimin and Oulama neighborhoods in eastern Mosul from ISIS and is close to recapturing nearby Zihur. "Many of the holy warriors have been killed in the confrontation," Brig. Gen. Fazil Berwari, a Kurdish commander in the Iraqi Golden Forces said, while confirming the liberation of the new neighborhoods. Coalition forces were bombing ISIS in support of the offensive in Mosul and in Syrian Raqqa, which ISIS claims as the capital of its so-called caliphate. "27 new "Close cooperation between our air coalition and Iraqi force liberating Mosul" Mcgurk tweeted on Saturday. --- 16:54 Street-to-street fighting with ISIS slows Iraqi Army advance in Mosul ------- 4:00pm Iraqi forces say they have liberated the villages of Qarah Shur and Kahariz, north of the Nimrud sub-district that lies south of Mosul. VIDEO: Airstrikes carried out against ISIS positions in Mosul --- 12:27pm Iraqi army liberates ancient town of Nimrud The Iraqi army said Saturday it had liberated Nimrud, 30 kilometers south of Mosul and the site of an ancient 13th century Assyrian city, after inflicting heavy losses to ISIS. "The units from the 9th armored division liberated the sub-district of Nimrud and raised the Iraqi flag over the town's building, after inflicting heavy losses on the enemy," a military statement said. The ancient site was overrun by ISIS more than two years ago. ISIS destroyed some parts of the ancient Assyrian site, and then published a video of the destruction in April 2015. The Iraqi army "mistakenly" announced the liberation of the sub-district last Sunday. --- 12:19 Entire family burnt to death in Mosul, Iraqi soldiers injured Members of an entire family were burnt to death inside their vehicle and a number of Iraqi soldiers were maimed when an ISS truck bomb went kaboom!between the Tahrir and Muharibeen neighborhoods of Mosul, Rudaw's Sangar Abdulrahman reported from Zahra neighborhood, northeastern Mosul. Abdulrahman said he did not know the exact figure for the causalities, but added that the powerful kaboom destroyed four Iraqi military vehicles. Posted by: Fred 2016-11-20 |
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