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MT Foresight Now  👁‏ @MT_Consult 8m8 minutes ago

#Mosul Daily Update supp •PMU: Tal Afar campaign to begin in days; will incl 15thDiv, IFP & special PMF units - Consider this a "wait & see"

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ISIS forces women to slay fleeing civilians, burns three over disobedience

March 23 2017 10:37 AM

ISIS terrorists

ISIS terrorists have forced women to slay a group of people who tried to flee from Mosul, eyewitnesses said on Thursday.

The witnesses said that these citizens were executed at Wadi A'akab graveyard in the right bank of Mosul.

The terrorists also burned three women alive for refusing to comply with their orders.

This comes as the terrorist group has lost most of its territories to the advancing Iraqi forces in the right bank of Mosul.

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/8514/ISIS-forces-women-to-slay-fleeing-civilians-burns-three-over-disobedience

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Bad weather temporarily halts Mosul operations

March 23 2017 12:01 PM

Gen. Thamer Ismail

The Iraqi forces on Thursday suspended Mosul operations due to bad weather conditions, Rapid Intervention Forces Commander Gen. Thamer Ismail said.

Ismail said in a press statement that heavy rains falling on Mosul and a bad weather conditions hindered the Iraqi forces operations in the embattled city.

The forces will advance to their targets as soon as the rain stops and the weather gets better in Mosul, according to Ismail.

Iraqi Army on February 19th launched a massive operation to retake the western side of Mosul from ISIS terrorists who have been controlling the city since June 2014.

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/8518/Bad-weather-temporarily-halts-Mosul-operations

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RIF: ISIS deploys 1,000 militants near Great Nuri Mosque

March 23 2017 01:34 PM

Rapid Intervention Forces

Iraqi joint forces are cautiously advancing towards Great Nuri Mosque in the right bank of Mosul after ISIS deployed almost a thousand militants in the area, Rapid Intervention Forces (RIF) announced on Thursday.
 

The spokesman for the RIF Ammar al-Moussawi said on press statement that ISIS booby-trapped the historical mosque and its famous "al-Hadbaa" Minaret. The Iraqi forces will deal with this situation carefully to clear the mines and save the mosque from demolition, he added.
 

Federal Police have deployed tens of snipers on the rooftops of some building to hunt down the ISIS terrorists in the vicinity of the Mosque, al-Moussawi added.
 

The Iraqi Army Nineth Armored Division and other forces supporting it continued their advancement on western Mosul areas after liberating Badush region and controlled tens of other villages, inflicting heavy damage on the terrorist group, according to RIF spokesman

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/8524/RIF-ISIS-deploys-1-000-militants-near-Great-Nuri-Mosque

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Three medical staffers killed in shelling on Mosul hospital

March 23 2017 02:33 PM

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Three medical staffers were killed on Thursday in a shelling on Mosul Public Hospital in the western bank of the city.

In statements on Thursday, a medical source at the hospital said mortar shells that were fired at the hospital hit the emergency hall, leaving three cadres killed and inflicting damage on the hospital building.

The source of the shelling has not been identified. 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/8527/Three-medical-staffers-killed-in-shelling-on-Mosul-hospital

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ISIS Terrorists, Fleeing Iraq and Syria, May Move To Libya: Newsweek

March 23 2017 02:43 PM

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ISIS terrorist  group may regroup in war-torn Libya after facing major territorial losses in Iraq and Syria, Newsweek magazine reported. 

Defense officials have said the militants are considering moving their de facto headquarters to Libya.
ISIS has benefited from chaos before: Its rise in Iraq and Syria was largely assisted by ongoing conflicts in both nations. The extremist group, which originated from al-Qaeda in Iraq, has since been beaten back by a number of local and international forces, pressuring the militants to reconsider the boundaries of their so-called caliphate in the Middle East.

 ISIS established pockets of territory in Libya after a number of Islamist rebel groups, who participated in the 2011 NATO-backed uprising against longtime leader Muammar el-Qaddafi, pledged their allegiance to ISIS' global extremist network. They faced a major setback when a U.N.-led offensive last year diminished ISIS' territory and ousted them from their stronghold of Sirte. The U.S. has conducted airstrikes against the extremists in Libya, killing an estimated 80 fighters in the final days of former President Barack Obama's administration in January. As the U.S. and other international powers focused on defeating ISIS in their heartlands of Iraq and Syria, however, the extremists reportedly established a presence in Libya's remote south.

“The instability in Libya and North Africa may be the most significant near-term threat to U.S. and allies’ interests on the continent,” Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser, head of the Pentagon’s Africa Command, told a Senate panel last month, according to the The New York Times. “Even with the success of Sirte, ISIS-Libya remains a regional threat with intent to target U.S. persons and interests.”

“We must carefully choose where and with whom we work with to counter ISIS-Libya in order not to shift the balance between factions and risk sparking greater conflict in Libya,” he added.

The U.N.-sponsored government, known as the Government of National Accord and based in Tripoli, is not the only entity claiming control of the embattled nation. In the east, military leader Khalifa Hifter has taken the reins of the Libyan National Army and begun his own war against Islamist militants. Locally, he has enjoyed the political backing of the Tobruk-based parliament and an interim government located in the city of Beida. Abroad, he has received support from neighboring Egypt and has sought Russia's blessing.

The poor security situation and lack of stability have left fertile ground for ISIS in Libya, which Chadian Brig. Gen. Zakaria Ngobongue, a senior counterterrorism official, called "a powder keg." Last month, Libyan defense officials estimated that there were only about 200 or so ISIS militants visibly active in pockets scattered into the desert by airstrikes, according to Reuters. But the militants’ flight from their final Iraqi stronghold of Mosul, along with the triple threat of U.S., Russia and Turkey-backed forces in Syria, could boost the number of extremists gathering in the North African country.

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/8528/ISIS-Terrorists-Fleeing-Iraq-and-Syria-May-Move-To-Libya-Newsweek

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Iraqi forces recapture al-Yabsat district in western Mosul

March 23 2017 04:26 PM

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Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) on Thursday recaptured al-Yabsat district in right Mosul, a security source told the Baghdad Post on Thursday.

The district was recaptured after four days of fierce clashes, the sources added.

On February 19, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the start of the operation on state TV, saying government forces were moving to "liberate the people of Mosul from ISIS oppression and terrorism forever", using the Arabic acronym for ISIS.

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/8535/Iraqi-forces-recapture-al-Yabsat-district-in-western-Mosul

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Dozens of civilians killed in US-led coalition's botched air raid in Mosul

March 23 2017 05:50 PM

More civilians dead in Mosul

Mostapha Hassan

 

Bodies of 136 civilians killed in a botched airstrike launched by the US-led coalition have been dug out from under the rubble so far, a source at the civil defense service said Thursday.

The air raid was carried out on Wednesday in the neighborhood of New Mosul.

He added other victims are still hidden in the rubble due to the raid launched on southwestern Mosul.

Among the victims, there are a lot of women and children.

The US-led coalition, mainly entitled to fight ISIS terror group, had mistakenly bombed residential areas near al-Rahma hospital.

In this area, the terror group of ISIS is taking civilians as human shields, which caused humanitarian tragedy to take place just after the aerial attack.

The Iraqi forces, backed by the US-led coalition mainly concentrating on aerial operations, have recaptured Mosul's eastern part after four months of fierce battles against ISIS.

The forces are now intensifying attacks to liberate the rest of the western part of Mosul, with a focus on the Old City of Mosul.

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/8538/Dozens-of-civilians-killed-in-US-led-coalition-s-botched-air-raid-in-Mosul

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We are coming, Nineveh' denies targeting civilians in Mosul

March 23 2017 08:52 PM

Officials deny targeting civilians

Mostapha Hassan

 

Command of Operation We are coming, Nineveh has denied reports that spoke about targeting civilians in Mosul.

In a statement released Thursday, the command said the terror group of ISIS is filming civilians it kills and post the images claiming that those civilians are victims of Iraqi bombardment.

We are committed to protecting civilians during the military operations, it added.

Some media outlets circulated photographs showing bodies of civilians killed in right bank of Mosul. So we want to reiterate that the ISIS terrorists are still exercising worst cases of torture against local residents in the areas they control, the command stated.

ISIS is hiding its affiliates amid civilians, looting local residents, booby-trapping refrigerators and placing them at narrow alleyways, the senior officials explained.  

The terrorists want to delude the public opinion through spreading this propaganda. And our forces are committed to rules of engagement to protect civilians, the statement noted. 

 The command concluded that ISIS is dying down. They are doing their best to cause much harm to innocent civilians and stir the public opinion against the forces partaking in the operation to liberate Mosul. 

Media platforms said on Thursday about 136 civilians were killed in a botched airstrike launched by the US-led coalition.

According to them, the air raid was carried out on Wednesday in the neighborhood of New Mosul.

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/8550/We-are-coming-Nineveh-denies-targeting-civilians-in-Mosul

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IMIS loots seven electric generators from Mosul University

March 23 2017 08:31 PM

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IMIS terrorists have looted seven huge electric generators from the Mosul University, sources told The Baghdad post on Thursday. 

The sources, who requested anonymity, confirmed the Iran-backed militias loot houses, possessions and electric converters in full view of the Mosul provincial council. 

Press reports earlier this week said that the IMIS militants looted houses in Mosul's newly-liberated areas.

Residents in the right bank of the city also reported growing numbers of looting. 

They said the violations had increased after the massive waves of displacement to the left bank of Mosul from the right one. 

The looted possessions have been moved by trucks into Salahuddin governorate where tens of these gangs are located.

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/8549/IMIS-loots-seven-electric-generators-from-Mosul-University

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ISIS fires mortars at Mosul's left bank, no casualties—sources

March 23 2017 08:06 PM

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ISIS terrorists have fired mortar shells at al-Zeraei neighborhood in Mosul's left bank, security sources told The Baghdad Post on Thursday. 

The sources confirmed the shells caused no casualties among civilians. 

The Baghdad Post will give readers further details when available. 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/8548/ISIS-fires-mortars-at-Mosul-s-left-bank-no-casualties-sources

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ISIS flees to Afghanistan, new KP commander appointed

March 23 2017 09:12 PM

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Tens of ISIS militants have fled to Afghanistan after fierce attacks by the international coalition forces in Mosul and Syria, The Baghdad Post cited security sources on Thursday.  

Well-informed sources in Pakistan's federally administrated tribal areas and Afghanistan confirmed the terror group's commander, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ordered dozens of fighters to move to the Afghanistan front. 

Al-Baghdadi appointed Tayyip Abu Hussein as a new commander of the group's offshoot, Khorasan Province (KP), the sources added.

Abu Hussein replaced Hasbi Allah Lugri, who had taken responsibility  after the assassination of Hafez Said in a US air strike.

Pakistani security sources announced the terror group- that currently suffers severe blows in Iraq- had expanded terror activities into other parts of Afghanistan including Herat and Farah provinces on Iranian borders. 

The group's attacks were previously confined to Nangarhar State, eastern the capital Kabul. 

The sources added Abu Hussein would focus on targeting foreign diplomatic missions.

On March 8, the Khorasan Province militants hit a military hospital in Kabul, killing 38 and wounding dozens.  

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/8551/ISIS-flees-to-Afghanistan-new-KP-commander-appointed

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Security forces destroy ISIS camp in southeastern Rutbah, Anbar

March 23 2017 11:17 AM

Gen. Mahmoud al-Falahi

Iraqi security forces destroyed on Thursday an ISIS camp in southeastern al-Rutbah and torched terrorists' tents after they fled the area, Anbar Operations Commander Gen. Mahmoud al-Falahi said.
 

A force from the Iraqi Army raided al-Kazef, al-A'azeimi and Atbel valleys in southeastern al-Rutbah, al-Falahi added in a press statement.

ISIS camps were torched, two motorcycles destroyed and a terrorist was killed by the Iraqi Air Force, the statement said.
 

The force also torched six ISIS camps that contained military equipment in the last few days, according to al-Falahi.
 

ISIS terrorists used to hide in the desert and valleys and establish bases in such places to launch terrorist attacks in Anbar governorate.

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/8515/Security-forces-destroy-ISIS-camp-in-southeastern-Rutbah-Anbar

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Iraqi command says IS fabricates reports of civilian casualties in Mosul

 

by Mohamed Mostafa Mar 23, 2017, 6:14 pm

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Displaced Iraqis flee their homes as Iraqi forces battle with Islamic State militants, in western Mosul, Iraq March 18, 2017. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem

 

Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi military media denied Thursday that security operations against Islamic State in western Mosul leave civilian casualties, accusing the militant group of fabricating reports in that respect.

“The terrorist Daesh (Islamic State) gangs practice the most heinous kinds of treatments to our people…They film and photograph innocent civilian victims whom they kill, presenting them as victims of strikes by the heroic Iraqi forces to mislead the public,” said the statement by the Defense Ministry’s War Media Cell.

The statement reiterated that Iraqi forces remain committed to “engagement rules that ensure protection for civilians”.

News reports suggested earlier Thursday that hundreds of civilians died in strikes by fighter jets from the Iraqi army and the allied U.S.-led coalition in western Mosul, where a security campaign has been running since mid February to eliminate militants.

Anadolu Agency quoted Cap. Ahmed al-Khazraji, from the Rapid Response Forces, saying that 43 people, mostly women and elders, were killed by mistake in airstrikes “probably” carried out by the coalition.

Rudaw also said aerial bombardments killed more than 200 people, with many others stranded under rubbles, in Mosul al-Jadida district.

Rudaw did not specify the source of the bombardment, but Iraqi forces, the allied U.S.-led coalition and Islamic State members have occasionally shared the blame for civilian deaths during exchanged bombardments in Mosul since security operations to retake the city from IS launched in October 2016.

http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/iraqi-command-says-fabricates-reports-civilian-casualties-mosul/

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Iraqi forces recapture Yabessat, another district in western Mosul

 

by Mohamed Mostafa Mar 23, 2017, 3:35 pm

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Iraqi soldiers carry weapons during an operation against Islamic State militants in the neighbourhood of Intisar, eastern Mosul, Iraq, December 5, 2016. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani

 

Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi government forces recaptured Thursday al-Yabessat district, another area in western Mosul as operations proceed to clear the region from Islamic State militants.

The Joint Operations Command said Counter-Terrorism Forces took over the area and raised Iraqi flags above its buildings.

 

Bab al-Jadid neighborhood in the Old City, Mosul

Iraqi government troops recaptured eastern Mosul in January and launched another offensive in February to retake the west from IS militants.

Iraqi troops are currently working to retake central Mosul districts from IS militants, specifically eyeing the city’s grand mosque where the group’s self-styled “Caliphate” was declared in 2014.

Generals from the Iraqi command and the allied U.S.-led coalition have admitted that battles in the west were tougher, given the high population and the density of the region’s residential areas structure. The commanders had predicted the campaign in western Mosul to realize victory within six months from the start of operations. The have reiterated that IS’s combat power, though fierce, but continues to wane, with many leaders counted either dead or escaping.

Battles in the city have so far displaced at least 355.000 people, including 181.000 from the western region alone.

http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/iraqi-forces-recapture-yabessat-another-district-western-mosul/

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Airstrikes kill 3 senior Islamic State leaders in Anbar

 

by Mohamed Mostafa Mar 23, 2017, 2:33 pm

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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Airstrikes by Iraqi army jets killed three senior Islamic State leaders in western Anbar, according to a source within the Joint Operations Command.

The strikes targeted IS havens at the center of the city of al-Qaem, a major IS stronghold in the west of the province, Waradana website quoted the source saying.

 

 

City of al-Qaem, Anbar, Iraq (google maps)

The trio killed in the strike were identified as Zeidan (Abu Sufian) al-Sharqi, Dhaher Mekhlef and Bassem Awwad.

According to the source, the trio belong to the group’s “first generation”

Islamic State held Anbar’s western regions, close to the borders with Syria, since 2014. Those areas have sustained occasional bombardments by Iraqi and U.S.-led coalition fighter jets.

There has not been an officially-declared military campaign to free those regions, but the province’s military command launched a brief assault early January that managed to recapture some western villages before stopping again. The Iraqi government, currently focusing its full combat power in Mosul, IS’s largest bastion in Iraq, is expected to shift to other IS pockets in Iraq once the campaign in Mosul comes to an end.

Local officials believe Islamic State is holding thousands in those regions to use them as human shields against any future security offensive.

The province’s borders with Syria witnessed exchanges of attacks between IS and border guards earlier ths month.

http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/airstrikes-kill-3-senior-islamic-state-leaders-anbar/

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Mosul parents sedate children with drugs, fearing discovery by Islamic State – aid groups

 

by Mohamed Mostafa Mar 23, 2017, 6:38 pm

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Displaced Iraqis flee their homes as Iraqi forces battle with Islamic State militants, in western Mosul, Iraq March 18, 2017. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem

 

London (Reuters) Terrified Iraqi families fleeing fierce fighting in Mosul are drugging their children with sedatives or taping their mouths shut to prevent their cries alerting Islamic State militants as they try to escape, aid workers say.

Hala Jaber of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said men caught trying to leave would be shot while women were sometimes tied up and left outside in the cold as a warning. Militants are also using civilians as human shields.

“Families often leave at night and in the early hours of the morning and have to walk with their children. The kids get tired and if they cry it’s very difficult,” Jaber told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from Erbil, east of Mosul.

“Families are sometimes putting duct tape on their children’s mouths or even giving them Valium or tranquilisers just to keep them quiet so that they are not found out by ISIS (Islamic State) and captured or shot.”

She said IOM staff had heard similar stories from families fleeing other Islamic State-controlled areas in Iraq.

Iraqi forces launched a campaign to retake West Mosul a month ago after capturing the eastern side of the city in January.

Aid agencies say the situation is desperate for up to 600,000 people who remain trapped with shortages of food, water, fuel and medical supplies.

The U.N. refugee agency said on Thursday that 157,000 people had reached a reception centre for residents fleeing the fighting.

Amy Christian, an Oxfam spokeswoman in Iraq, said civilians reaching safety were “very traumatised, hungry, dehydrated and completely exhausted”.

Some had given their children sedatives to shield them from the terror as they fled, she said.

“My family gave drugs to the young children,” teenager Noor Muhammed told Oxfam after escaping with 27 people.

“Parents gave sleeping medicine to their children so they wouldn’t be horrified by the fighting; also, (so that) when they ran at night under the darkness they wouldn’t be found because of the children,” Muhammed said in a statement provided by Oxfam.

Specialist teams are helping children arriving at displacement camps with psychological support.

“The things the children have seen and been through are beyond what any human being should see,” Jaber said.

“They’ve witnessed hands being cut off, beheadings and killings. A lot of them are in shock.”

But Jaber said the children were remarkably resilient.

“They were drawing tanks with ISIS flags (when they arrived). Now they’re drawing flowers and happy faces,” she added.

http://www.iraqinews.com/features/mosul-parents-sedate-children-drugs-fearing-discovery-islamic-state-aid-groups/

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3 minutes ago, tigergorzow said:

Mosul parents sedate children with drugs, fearing discovery by Islamic State – aid groups

 

“Families are sometimes putting duct tape on their children’s mouths or even giving them Valium or tranquilizers just to keep them quiet so that they are not found out by ISIS (Islamic State) and captured or shot.”

That is the difference between a Red Neck American Parent and an Iraqi Parent, a red neck would record their children voices and then use a decoy box to bring in ISIS members and then Kill Them All!!

 

 

 

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the horror of unarmed iraqis with families or without has got to be beyond terrifying in the end people are people and most iraqis simply want to be free pursuing happiness ......  

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March 23, 2017 1:03 PM CDT By Special to PeoplesWorld.org

A displaced Iraqi girl, fleeing fighting between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State militants, looks out from a bus as she arrives with her family at the Hassan Sham camp, east of Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday, March 21. | Felipe Dana / AP

 

http://www.peoplesworld.org/article/stability-still-eludes-iraq-14-years-after-u-s-invasion/

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ISIS slaughters man, son in Baqubah over 'police links'

March 23 2017 11:54 PM

ISIS slaughters a man and his son

ISIS terror group has posted online photos showing its militants slaughtering a man and his son in Baqubah over "cooperating with the Iraqi security forces", The Baghdad Post reported.

The terror group announced it stormed the victim's house in Garayat village, 113 km northeastern Baqubah, and arrested him and his son. 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/8557/ISIS-slaughters-man-son-in-Baqubah-over-police-links

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Prominent ISIS terrorist, two aides killed in Mosul

March 23 2017 10:16 PM

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At least three ISIS terrorists, including a prominent security figure, have been killed in an international coalition airstrike in Mosul's right bank on Thursday, Peshmerga's Counter-Terrorism Group announced. 

In a statement to The Baghdad Post, the group said, "The international coalition airstrikes killed on Thursday ISIS terrorist, Abu Obeida and two aides near Bahaa-Eddine Mosque in al-Najar neighborhood." 

The Iraqi forces, supported by an air covering from the 68-member international coalition, have made great advances against ISIS terrorists in Mosul. 

Press reports that cited security sources said the terror group's affiliates began fleeing Mosul heading to Afghanistan through Iran.

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/8553/Prominent-ISIS-terrorist-two-aides-killed-in-Mosul

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In Pictures: Coalition Forces Continue Training Peshmerga

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23/03/2017 - 23:33

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ERBIL — The US-led coalition continues training Kurdish peshmerga forces as part of the global anti-Islamic State (IS) efforts.

The trainings, according to the official Facebook page of the US Consulate General in Erbil, is mainly focused on counter-IED class, small unit military operations, as well as offensive tactics.

“Those photos show their training which is a part of Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve’s overall building partner capacity mission to increase the security capacity of the security forces fighting Da’esh,” the consulate said, using the Arabic acronym for Islamic State (IS).

http://www.basnews.com/index.php/en/news/kurdistan/338245