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Iraq
Iraqi forces liberate 2/3 of Mosul’s Old City: commander
2017-06-26
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Iraqi Armed Forces have liberated two thirds of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
’s Old City District over the last two weeks, the commander of the federal police, Ra’ed Shaker Joudat claimed on Saturday.

With the army and federal police intensifying their military operations in this district, the 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
has been forced to consolidate their positions in the last neighborhoods they control inside Mosul’s Old City.

Despite their rapid advance, the Iraqi Armed Forces are expected to face stiff resistance in the last neighborhoods under ISIS control, as the terrorist group clings onto these final buildings in their former stronghold.
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