ISIS evacuate 80 Mosul families to set up ambushes
Syrian refugee children. File Photo.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh– Islamic State militants have evacuated more than 80 families from Faisaliya, west of Mosul, to other districts in the east, Alsumaria News reported.
“The move is aimed at booby-trapping the emptied houses or turn them into ambushes for the security forces advancing on several axes from the western coast of Mosul,” said a local source, on conditions of anonymity.
ISIS had used the houses of migrating families as shelters for its fighters and mini-factories for explosives.
Joint Iraqi forces and US aircrafts continue a weeks-old campaign to liberate Mosul from ISIS and strip the extremist group of its last bastion in Iraq.
The Iraqi Red Crescent said on Monday it had received more than 26000 refugees from Nineveh. The United Nations predicted September that battles in Mosul would drive out one million people.