Iraqi relief workers recover bodies of 75 people in Mosul’s Old City
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) – Iraqi relief workers recovered on Tuesday bodies of 75 people who were buried under the rubble of destroyed homes in the western side of Mosul’s Old City.
The civil defense directorate in Nineveh told Al-Aan online newspaper that the recovered bodies were found in Shaikh Ibrahim, Jamea’ al-Masfa and al-Qulaiat districts in Mosul’s Old City.
On Friday, Nofal al-Aakob, the governor of Nineveh, declared the Old City in Mosul empty of bodies under the rubble.
Islamic State’s chief of mortar missile stock arrested in western Mosul
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi Interior Ministry has announced arresting Islamic State militant in charge of the mortar missile stock in western Mosul.
In a statement on Tuesday, Maj. Gen. Saad Maan, spokesperson for the ministry, said “Nineveh police depended on information from the intelligence to arrest Islamic State member in charge of the mortar missile stock.”
The militant, according to the statement, “was arrested in al-Bikr district, in west of Mosul.”
Iraqi security arrest three foreign Islamic State women in Mosul
Nineveh (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi troops arrested on Tuesday three foreign women of Islamic State in Mosul city while trying to flee the country into Syria.
Captain Khalil Ibrahim, from the 15th division of the Iraqi army, told SNG agency that the trio, including two Syrians and a Turkish, were found to have been working for Islamic State’s Hisbah “vigilantism” Diwan during the terrorist group’s capture of Mosul in 2014.
They were taken to the Nineveh operations command for interrogation over crimes they committed against Mosul residents, Ibrahim pointed out.