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Iraqi troops gain control on 90% of central Tal Afar: Operations Command

 Iraqi troops gain control on 90% of central Tal Afar: Operations Command

Joint security forces. File photo.

Joint security forces. File photo.
Tal Afar (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi joint troops managed to gain control on 90 percent of the center of Tal Afar town, the Joint Operations Command has announced.

In remarks on Saturday, Brig. Gen. Yehia Rasool, JOC spokesperson, said “joint troops were capable of controlling 60 percent of the battlefield and 90 percent of the center of Tal Afar.”

In related news, the paramilitary troops of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces), along with army, have liberated al-Muthanna al-Oula district after controlling al-Muthanna al-Thaniya district previously on the day.

Joint troops of army, Federal Police, Counter-Terrorism Forces and PMFs liberated many districts including al-Qadisiya, al-Rabei and al-Salam, al-Bawari region as well as many villages and raised the Iraqi flag there.

Operations continue on the seventh day after Iraqi PM Haidar al-Abadi announced in a televised speech last week the beginning of offensive to recapture Tal Afar, which has been held by the militants since 2014, when the extremist group first emerged to proclaim its self-styled ‘caliphate’. This came after 40 days of declaring victory in Mosul, the group’s former capital, where operations lasted between October to July.

Until end of June, PMFs managed to isolate Tal Afar from the Syrian borders and from the rest of Nineveh.

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