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Iraqi Special Forces win back 3 districts in eastern Mosul

Friday, 09 December 2016 4:12 PM [ Last Update: Friday, 09 December 2016 8:45 PM ]

A member of the Iraqi forces, instructs people in al-Muharibin neighborhood of Mosul, to gather for aid distribution on December 8, 2016 during an ongoing operation against Takfiri Daesh terrorists. (Photo by AFP)

Iraqi government forces have established full control over three more neighborhoods in the eastern quarter of Mosul as they try to drive Takfiri Daesh terrorists out of the northern city in joint operations with allied fighters and Kurdish Peshmerga forces.

On Friday, Iraqi Special Operations Forces managed to liberate the neighborhoods of Adl, al-E’lam and al-Ta’mim in the eastern part of Mosul, located some 400 kilometers north of the capital Baghdad, and raised the national Iraqi flag over a number of buildings there, Arabic-language al-Forat news agency reported.

Scores of Daesh members were killed and injured during the fierce exchanges of gunfire between government forces and the extremists.

The development came on the same day that pro-government fighters from Popular Mobilization Units, also known by the Arabic name Hashd al-Sha'abi, defused a car bomb in the strategic Tal Abtah region west of Mosul.

This photo provided by the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units, better known by the Arabic name Hashd al-Sha'abi, media center shows a defused car bomb in the strategic Tal Abtah region west of Mosul, Iraq, on December 9, 2016.

Additionally, the Iraqi Defense Ministry announced that Iraq's Air Force fighter jets had carried out a string of airstrikes against Daesh positions in the eastern and western flanks of Mosul, killing dozens of the Takfiris in the process.

Iraqi warplanes pounded a missile depot in Mosul’s eastern neighborhood of Rashidiya, before targeting a workshop for booby-trapping vehicles and manufacturing bombs near a train station in western Mosul.

Another Daesh position was bombarded in Mosul’s western al-Mansour district as well.

Separately, Iraqi jets, based on information from the Directorate General for Intelligence and Security, launched precision strikes against a Daesh arms depot in Qadisiyah district.

Iraqi fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units drive near the village of Ayn Nasir, south of Mosul, on December 4, 2016, during the ongoing operations against Takfiri Daesh militants. (Photo by AFP)

Iraqi army soldiers and their allied forces launched joint operations on October 17 to retake Mosul from Daesh terrorists.

The Iraqi forces’ advance has however been slowed down due to the presence of hundreds of thousands of civilians, many of whom are prevented from leaving Mosul by Daesh.

The United Nations says more than 82,000 civilians have experienced forced displacement in the wake of Mosul liberation operation.

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