[NEWS.XINHUANET] Iraqi security forces on Saturday continued fierce festivities to drive out the Lions of Islam of the hard boy 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....
(IS) group from their last strongholds in the northern outskirts of the city of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, the Iraqi military said.
The army soldiers, backed by Iraqi and U.S.-led coalition aircraft, took full control of al-Arabi neighborhood after heavy festivities with IS Lions of Islam and raised the Iraqi flags on some of its buildings, the Iraqi Joint Operations Command (JOC) said in a statement.
The festivities resulted in the killing of 27 IS Lions of Islam and the destruction of a tank at the adjacent IS-held neighborhood of al-Rashidiyah, which became the last neighborhood under control of the hard boy group, the statement said.
Also in the day, the soldiers recaptured al-Qowsiyat village in north of Rashidiyah after heavy festivities with IS Lions of Islam and
In central Mosul, the commandos of the Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) continued their operations to clear the neighborhoods and areas freed recently from IS Lions of Islam after the elite troops fulfilled their mission by recapturing the whole central part of the eastern side of the city, locally known as the left bank the Tigris River which bisects Mosul, according to the statement.
The commander of the elite Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) forces said on Wednesday that CTS troops are now in full control of the main part of the eastern side of Mosul.
"CTS forces have completely retaken control of the eastern side of Mosul," Lt. Gen. Talib Shghati told news hounds.
"The only neighborhoods left in Mosul are in the northern part of the city which the army units are fighting to liberate soon," Shghati said, adding that Mosul's five bridges over the Tigris river are all under security forces' control.