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Iraqi troops retake first district to have fallen to IS in Mosul
[Iraq News] Iraqi government forces recaptured Sunday the first district to have fallen in Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
’s grip in western djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, setting 80 families free from there as operations near recapturing the group’s last strongholds in the region, a security source was quoted saying.

BasNews quoted Iraqi army Major Ali Mohsen saying forces took over the 17 Tamuz (July 17th), the very first neighborhood of Mosul to have fallen in IS grip in June 2014. Shafaaq News website quoted a security source saying that Iraqi forces managed to free 80 families from the northern area of that neighborhood.

Mohsen told BasNews that the forces also took over the 30 Tamuz district and were in control over 60 percent of al-Refaie. He said troops were preparing to invade al-Najjar district and the Mosul Hotel.

BasNews quoted Ahmed al-Obaidi, a Federal Police Captain, said IS Death Eaters on Sunday rubbed out 16 Iraqi women who were trying to flee al-Rifaie, adding that 30 other families in the same district.
Posted by: Fred 2017-05-15
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=488089