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| Mosul Offensive News |
| 2016-10-25 |
| Kurds kill dozens of Bad Guy, capture 8 villages in Bashiqa (IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Peshmerga forces announced on Sunday killing dozens of ISIS militants and destructing eight booby-trapped vehicles, as well as besieging eight villages in the axis of Bashiqa. Kurdish Peshmerga said in a press statement, “Our forces managed, during its operations in Bashiqa area, to besiege eight villages east and west of Bashiqa,” indicating that, “These villages are Berahlan, Fadiliya, Omar Qamiji, Kanouni, Bahzan, Kharab Dalil and Tibz Kharab al-Kabira and Tibz Kharab al-Saghira.” “We recaptured the main road linking between Bashiqa and Mosul, thus, cut off the supply lines of the ISIS militants, who are now present in the besieged areas,” the statement added. “Our forces also killed five senior ISIS officials and dozens of militants during the operation, in addition to destroying eight booby-trapped vehicles and three motorcycles,” the statement explained. Yesterday, Kurdish Peshmerga forces began the battle to liberate Bashiqa, northeast of Mosul, and managed to regain control over a number of nearby villages. Iraqi forces capture 2 villages near Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Media officials with the Ministry of Defense announced on Monday liberating the villages of al-Khanfsan and Dor al-Taqa al-Harariyah, south of Mosul. The officials said in a press statement, “Forces from the army’s 15 brigade and Federal Police managed, at noon today, to liberate the villages of al-Khanfsan and Dor al-Taqa al-Harariyah in the southern axis of Mosul, and raised the Iraqi flag over the buildings.” “The security forces continue advancing toward Munira village in order to liberate it,” the officials added. Last week, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced launching the battles to liberate the city of Mosul from the ISIS grip, and emphasized that Iraqi army and Federal Police will lead the operations. Kurds fear media will tip off ISIS With good reason. Ukrainian volunteer forces used social media to grid Russian backed rebels for artillery strikes back before the rebel governments of Donetsk and Lugansk clamped down on social media posts by their own soldiers. [ARA News] Erbil – The Kurdistan Region’s prosecutor on Monday called on Kurdish channels to halt their live coverage of ongoing fighting against ISIS in northern Iraq due to security concerns. In public letter, the prosecutor called K24, NRT and Rudaw to halt the live coverage of ongoing anti-ISIS operations, such as the Kirkuk attack last Friday that was covered live by several TV-stations. Criticism over live coverage has grown during the Mosul offensive, with Kurds fearing that the coverage could give away Peshmerga positions to ISIS. “For the sake of ‘Likes’ you do not put an entire city’s security at risk. Live coverage of war is not right. It tells the enemy everything!!” said Sazan Mandalawi, a Kurdish blogger and author of the book My Nest in Kurdistan. Mohammed A. Salih, analyst and PhD student at Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, told ARA News: “While live-streaming of a conflict is an innovative and interesting idea, the dilemma is how to ensure it is not going to affect military operations and planning as well as the safety of the people in the front-lines who include thousands of troops and tens of journalists.” “Therefore, the key question is if any steps are taken to ensure that the live-streaming is not going to affect the military aspects, How do we know or can be even sure that such round-the-clock live-streaming or any form of live coverage from the heart of the battle or in the front-lines in general won’t amount to live intel for ISIS?I’m not sure if we have the answers to these questions or if there are reliable answers to these questions. There might be other ways of effectively covering the conflict without running a round-the-clock live stream,” he added. Kurdish security analyst Ranj Talabani agreed. “It [live coverage] could help give away positions and movements of Peshmerga,” he told ARA News. |
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