Federal Police continues to advance in the old area last strongholds in Mosul Daesh

Friday June 23, 2017 at 9:52

Federal

BAGHDAD / SOAS Lierse:

Iraqi forces continued on Friday, offered in the old area last stronghold of al Daesh in the city of Mosul.

According to the Federal Police team leader Raed Shakir Jawdat, in a statement received "Sky Press," that "our units penetrated 150 meters from the southern axis and made contact with the piecesof Almtoglp from the west towards the depth of the old city."

He added that the pieces "rescued 40 families stuck in the middle of booby-trapped houses and white door continues to field engineering battalion to remove mines and Alafajam planted by militants Daesh to block the advance of the pieces towards Farouk Street and Aserjkhanh."

Thick plumes of smoke from the old city, on Thursday, while Iraqi forces tightened the noose on the region.

The area includes the last pocket is still under the control of militants in Mosul, Nouri mosque, which was bombed by al-Daesh last Wednesday.

Iraqi forces began in the 19th of last February to break into the western side of the city of Mosul, the main stronghold of al-Daesh operations and managed to restore many neighborhoods, villages, sites and strategic objectives within the city as well as the city's airport and a military base nearby villages and areas of the Parties.

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