Anti-terrorism forces clear 3 Mosul areas from ISIS
Iraqi army forces. File photo.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi anti-terrorism forces cleared three areas in Mosul from Islamic State militants on Wednesday, a senior apparatus leader said.
Abdul Wahab al-Saedi said in statements that the forces, part of the Iraqi army, “completed the liberation of al-Qadisiya, Dawrat al-Mahrouq and al-Abbadi northeast of Mosul.”
A source in Nineveh said that the anti-terrorism forces also killed on Tuesday an ISIS suicide bomber and destroyed his booby-trapped vehicle east of the city. The source added that the suicider was on his way for an attack on military forces in al-Zohour district.
Iraqi government forces, backed by tribal militias and US-led fighter jets, have been on a major campaign since mid October to liberate Mosul, ISIS’s last strategic bastion in Iraq. Forces have been successfully recapturing villages around Mosul and aim to storm the heart of the city and isolate the whole province of Nineveh to fully trap militants inside. ISIS fighters, on the other hand, have reportedly responded with occasionally shelling the liberated areas.