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Iraq
Mosul Offensive News
2016-12-04
13 ISIS Bad Guys bite the dust near Mosul

Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Intelligence of the Anti-Terrorism Directorate announced on Saturday, that 13 members of the Islamic State group (ISIS), including an elite leader, were killed, east of the city of Mosul.

The directorate said in a press statement, “Trusted local sources revealed that ISIS is intending to launch an attack on Hayy Adan, west of Mosul,” pointing out that, “Anti-Terrorism forces made several ambushes for the enemy, and clashed with the group’s members, killing 13 of them, including the elite leader Abu Mohamed al-Iraqi.”

“After further investigation it was revealed that the leader’s name is Talaat Ahmed Fathi, and he is coming from a family belongs to ISIS,” the statement explained. “The leader joined terrorist groups in 2003,” the statement added.

Noteworthy, ‘We Are Coming, Nineveh’ Operations that was launched to liberate Mosul, and other occupied areas of Nineveh, was started in 17 October 2016.

Iraqi forces capture 4 villages north of Mosul

[Iran Press TV] Iraqi army soldiers have managed to liberate four villages north of the strategic city of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
as government forces, backed by fighters from Popular Mobilization Units and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, press ahead with an operation to expel ISIS forces of Evil from the area.

The commander of Nineveh Liberation Operation, Lieutenant General Abdul Amir Yarallah, said in a press statement on Saturday that the 16th Infantry Division of the Army had recaptured the village of Gara Tepe, and hoisted the Iraqi national flag over a number of buildings there, Arabic-language al-Sumaria television network reported.

Yarallah added that Iraqi government forces inflicted heavy losses on ISIS during festivities with the Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
terrorists.

Iraqi soldiers also established control over the villages of Kuri Ghariban, al-Darawish and Abu Jarbouah north of Mosul, located some 400 kilometers north of the capital, Baghdad.

Moreover, Iraqi Special Operations Forces managed to liberate al-Kafa'at neighborhood in the eastern quarter of Mosul on Saturday.

Iraqi Federal Police also announced that security forces had foiled an infiltration attempt by ISIS forces of Evil into the village of Azbah south of Mosul.

al-Manar: Iraq Forces Gain Ground Northeast of Mosul
Forces from the Iraqi army retook four villages from the ISIL group northeast of the city of Mosul on Saturday, the Joint Operations Command said.

The recapture by the army’s 16th division of the villages between Bashiqa and Mosul clears the way for Iraqi forces to enter the city from the northeast.

“The army’s 16th division liberated four villages on the northern front… and raised the Iraqi flag on buildings after defeating the enemy,” a statement said.

Tens of thousands of Iraqi forces launched a massive operation to retake Mosul, the terrorists’ last major bastion in Iraq, on October 17.

The main push has come from the east, where elite forces from the Counter-Terrorism Service have retaken several neighborhoods despite fierce resistance.
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