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| Iraq |
| Iraqi troops capture 3 more neighborhoods in eastern Mosul |
| 2016-11-25 |
| [Al Ahram] Iraqi troops on Thursday drove 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... murderous Moslems from three more neighborhoods in the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , pushing toward the city center in a slow, street-to-street fight that's now in its sixth week, according to a senior Iraqi commander. Brig. Gen. Haider Fadhil of the special forces told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that his men have retaken the neighborhoods of Amn, Qahira and Green Apartments and were expanding their foothold in the densely populated district of Zohour. The neighborhoods are all in the eastern sector of Mosul, east of the Tigris River, where most of the fighting has taken place since the government's campaign to liberate the city began Oct. 17. Government troops are backed by U.S.-led coalition Mosul, captured by IS in 2014, is the last major urban center still held by the Sunni hard boy group in Iraq. Late Wednesday, a front man for one of the larger state-sanctioned Shiite militias fighting on the ground near Mosul said the murderous Moslems have seized a road to the northwest of Mosul linking the city to Raqqa, the de facto capital of the IS group's self-styled caliphate in neighboring Syria. The militias have been converging on Tal Afar, an IS-held town west of Mosul that had a Shiite majority before falling to the Lions of Islam in 2014. "We have cut off Tal Afar from Mosul and we cut off Mosul from Syria," Jaafar al-Husseini, a front man for the Hezbollah Brigades, told the AP. Also Wednesday, a pre-dawn It was the second bridge to be struck this week, and two other bridges were destroyed by Airstrikes destroy last bridge linking Mosul’s west, east Nineveh – (IraqiNews.com) US-led fighter jets destroyed on Thursday the last of five bridges linking the western bank of Tigris River with the eastern bank, practically isolating the east and west of Mosul, Islamic State’s last stronghold in Iraq. The Nineveh province council said airstrikes destroyed the so-called, iron “Old Bridge”, the last after four others were demolished in military airstrikes over the past few days. This will make Nineveh “the burial place for the Islamic State,” as council member Mohamed Ibrahim al-Bayyati put it in a statement, He said that continuous military strikes will make the group eventually under siege from all directions. Popular militias fighting ISIS besides the Iraqi government said Wednesday they had completely isolated Nineveh from all Iraq as well as from Syria, stripping ISIS of its vital supply lines. ISIS had relied on booby-trapping the bridges to forestall advances on the ground by Iraqi forces. ISIS’s “blood judge” killed in Nineveh Nineveh – (IraqiNews.com) An Islamic State executioner judge known for Nineveh locals as the “blood judge” was killed Thursday in an armed assault at the central area of the province, a local source told Alsumaria News. “The ISIS summary court judge, a French national, was killed by armed attackers boarding a car at the eastern coast of the province,” said the source. “The judge was known among the people of Nineveh as the ‘blood judge’, having sentenced any violator of the group’s directives to beheading and deprivation of burial.” He assumed his post a year earlier after a shakeup of ranks in the province, he explained. ISIS put its fighters on alert to search for perpetrators, said the source. |
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