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Iraqi forces retake 95% of Tal Afar from ISIS
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraq’s Ministry of Defense announced on Sunday that Iraqi forces recovered 95 percent of Tal Afar from ISIS, the Death Eater group’s stronghold in the country’s northwest.

After just eight days of fighting, all 29 neighborhoods in Tal Afar city had been taken back from the Death Eater group, the military said in a statement on Sunday.

However,
a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all...
fighting was ongoing in al-'Ayadiya, a small area 11 kilometres northwest of the city, where holy warriors who fled the district's city center were hiding out, Iraqi military front man Brigadier General Yahya Rasool said.

Tal Afar was the latest objective in the war on the Death Eater group following the recapture in July of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, where it declared its self-proclaimed caliphate over parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014.

Iraqi militia kills 6 ISIS Turbans in Mosul

Baaj (IraqiNews.com) Six Islamic State militants were killed as the Shia-led paramilitary troops repelled an attack in west of Mosul.

“The 40th brigade repulsed an attack in Baaj, located west of Mosul,” according to a statement by the media service of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces).

“The attack targeted al-Risala and al-Hamdaniya districts in the town,” it added.

PMFs, backed by the army troops and fighter jets, managed to liberate the town, which is close to the Iraqi-Iranian borders, in June.

Previously, the troops took control over the borderline with Syria liberating the remaining villages in the vicinity of Qairawan, a main Islamic State bastion which links between Tal Afar town and the Syrian borders, and Baaj, after the troops announced full liberation of Qairawan.

The group has been actively engaged in the Iraqi government’s war against IS, and has recently claimed full control over Iraq’s borders with Syria, but has been operating only on ground with air support from the Iraqi army warplanes.

PMUs, an alliance of more than 60 mostly Shia militias, are recognized by the government as a national force under the Prime Minister’s command after an edict from Iraq’s top Shia clergy was made in 2014 ordering their formation to counter IS militants.
Posted by: Fred 2017-08-28
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