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Iraqi troops withdraw as ISIS attacks leave deaths in Mosul

 Iraqi troops withdraw as ISIS attacks leave deaths in Mosul

Iraqi army forces in Mosul.

Iraqi army forces in Mosul.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi army troops withdrew Wednesday from the districts of Wehda and Sumer due to deadly counter-attacks by Islamic State militants, hours after the forces stormed the two eastern Mosul districts, Anadolu Agency reported.

Three soldiers were killed after ISIS suicide bombers, boarding booby-trapped trucks and armored vehicles, attacked al-Salam Hospital, southwest of Mosul, where an Iraqi government force stationed after storming several neighborhoods in eastern Mosul on Tuesday, according to Anadolu Agency which quoted Mahdi Kazem, a captain at the 9th armored division.

Kazem said the attack left 43 others wounded, including civilians.

ISIS-run Amaq news agency had claimed more than 62 deaths among Iraqi troops as the extremist group launched counter, suicide attacks on the troops during fights around al-Salam hospital since late Tuesday. It added that more than 20 various army vehicles were destroyed during the attacks.

Iraqi government forces, backed by popular militias and a US-led air cover, have been liberating villages in Mosul on an almost daily basis as part of a major operation to free the city that launched in mid October.

Military and police commanders said recently that government forces became in control of nearly 50 percent of the eastern section of Mosul. ISIS remains in control of most of the western region adjacent to the group’s strongholds in Syria, but Iraqi security commanders and militia leaders reportedly managed to cut ISIS’s supply and escape routes to and from Syria.

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