Synopsis Posted April 23, 2017 Report Share Posted April 23, 2017 (edited) Here is a Mosul twitter map for today. https://mobile.twitter.com/nieuwsblog/status/855869209003393028/photo/1 Edited April 23, 2017 by Synopsis 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckFinley Posted April 23, 2017 Report Share Posted April 23, 2017 5 minutes ago, Synopsis said: Here is a Mosul twitter map for today. https://mobile.twitter.com/nieuwsblog/status/855869209003393028/photo/1 Thanks Synopsis, love those maps. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synopsis Posted April 23, 2017 Report Share Posted April 23, 2017 43 minutes ago, ChuckFinley said: Thanks Synopsis, love those maps. Me, too, ChuckFinley. I just wonder how accurate they are since they may not be updated to actual - for whatever reason. We'll likely know better early next week. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Bean Posted April 23, 2017 Report Share Posted April 23, 2017 They almost have the "old district" in a position to completely surround it. Those suckers are like rats in a barrel. Pick em off, one by one. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yota691 Posted April 23, 2017 Report Share Posted April 23, 2017 23-04-2017 02:54 PM Al-Asadi: purge alive 36 out of Mosul Ayman 41 Announced anti - terrorism commander Lieutenant - General Abdul - Ghani al - Asadi, the remaining neighborhoods , however , the terrorist organization Daesh within the definitive responsibility of the device in the right coast of the city of Mosul, is only five out of 41 districts of the neighborhood, stressing that the device forces finished clearing 36 of the revival. Asadi revealed for the continuation of the Western column in the fight against terrorism currently in progress Tanak neighborhood, noting that the neighborhood has not left him only a few parts of the liberation from the terrorists. He pointed to the return of normal life to health and shy of the second revolution after their liberation recently, referring to the arrival of relief aid to the neighborhoods. It announced the leadership of coming operations Aaninoy yesterday that the anti - terrorism forces freed the second health district to the right side of the city of Mosul. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckFinley Posted April 23, 2017 Report Share Posted April 23, 2017 They are falling pretty fast. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiljor Posted April 23, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2017 Hundreds more join Mosul exodus as Iraqi forces retake two more western districts By Maher Chmaytelli ReutersApril 22, 2017 View photos Displaced Iraqis display a white shirt being used as a flag as they flee after a battle between Iraqi rapid response forces and Islamic State militants in western Mosul, Iraq, April 22, 2017. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed More By Maher Chmaytelli MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Pushing carts loaded with bags, babies and the elderly, hundreds of people fled Mosul on Saturday after Iraqi forces retook two more districts in the west of the city from Islamic State. After walking for miles, families were taken by bus from a government checkpoint in the south of the city to camps housing more than 410,000 people displaced since the offensive to retake Mosul began in October. "We left with no water, food or electricity," said 63-year-old Abu Qahtan, the elder of a group of 41 people from five families. "We left with the clothes on our backs." Iraqi forces have taken much of Mosul from the militants who overran the city in June 2014. The military now controls the eastern districts and are making advances in the west. Islamic State fighters, holding out in the Old City, are surrounded in the northwest and are using booby traps, sniper and mortar fire to defend themselves. On Saturday, artillery and gun fire could be heard as families arrived from Hay al-Tanak district which they said was still half controlled by the militants. Troops, backed by helicopters, were moving towards the al-Nuri mosque where, nearly three years ago, Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announced his self-declared caliphate spanning parts of Iraq and Syria. A Reuters reporter, standing within sight of the mosque, saw heavy smoke in that area after an air strike. The U.S.-trained Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) has retaken the nearby al-Thaura and al-Saha districts, statements said. CTS commander Major General Maan Saadi said his troops were linking up with Iraq's Federal Police moving in on the Old City from a different position. "We are completing the encirclement of the terrorists in the Old City," he told Reuters. Hundreds of thousands of civilians are still trapped in western Mosul, where Iraqi forces are making slow progress against Islamic State in what is a labyrinth of narrow streets. As of April 20, some 503,000 people have been displaced from Mosul, of which 91,000 have returned, a spokeswoman for the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said, citing government figures. Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, is the militants' last urban stronghold in the country. (Writing by Ulf Laessing; Editing by Louise Ireland) https://www.yahoo.com/news/hundreds-more-join-mosul-exodus-iraqi-forces-retake-083822183.html 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckFinley Posted April 23, 2017 Report Share Posted April 23, 2017 Based on an earlier article they had 5 left. That should bring us down to 3. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synopsis Posted April 23, 2017 Report Share Posted April 23, 2017 Recent Twitter Battle for Mosul map: https://mobile.twitter.com/iraqi_day/status/856197119643975681/photo/1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckFinley Posted April 23, 2017 Report Share Posted April 23, 2017 Thanks Synopsis. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synopsis Posted April 24, 2017 Report Share Posted April 24, 2017 (edited) 1 hour ago, ChuckFinley said: Thanks Synopsis. My pleasure. Pretty sure there's more good news to follow since remaining ISIS should be getting spread thinner and should expire faster. Here's more Twitter. This one looks even better. It appears this map does not show IDF occupation of the more hilly region in the northwest. Other areas show shrinking ISIS areas especially in the Old Mosul area. Looks like they are pushing hard on Old Mosul. Taking that aught to really deal a blow to remaining ISIS in Mosul morale. https://mobile.twitter.com/proudiraqi/status/855895070318395392/photo/1 Edited April 24, 2017 by Synopsis 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nannab Posted April 24, 2017 Report Share Posted April 24, 2017 Thank you Synopsis for the amazing maps. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckFinley Posted April 24, 2017 Report Share Posted April 24, 2017 Thanks Synopsis for the updates. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synopsis Posted April 24, 2017 Report Share Posted April 24, 2017 8 minutes ago, nannab said: Thank you Synopsis for the amazing maps. 4 minutes ago, ChuckFinley said: Thanks Synopsis for the updates. You are very Welcome, NannaB and ChuckFinley! Go Moola Nova! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckFinley Posted April 24, 2017 Report Share Posted April 24, 2017 I will miss those maps but let's wrap this up ASAP. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiljor Posted April 24, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2017 Kurdish-Led Forces Gain Control Over All Strategic Highways Leading to Raqqa 23/4/2017 18:39:00 Share Print . Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have establish control of all strategic highways leading to Daesh's de facto capital of Raqqa, the SDF press service said. "We have cut all the strategic ways of supplying Daesh. We have cut the connection with Iraq, freeing the way to Deir ez-Zor and have gained control over the eastern part of the province of Raqqa. With the attack on the city of Tabqa, all the supply routes have been finally cut, we also established control of the roads of Raqqa-Tabqa and Raqqa-Damascus," Kurdish news agency Firat quoted SDF spokeswoman Cihan Şêx Ehmed as saying. Moreover, the SDF continue their offensive in the north of the Raqqa province, she said. "Now Daesh cannot replenish its forces and ammunition. They are besieged in Raqqa from four directions," she added. According to SDF data, Daesh militants are retreating to the city of Raqqa and are preparing to conduct battles in the city. The Kurdish-led forces, in turn, continue to attack the city. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) launched the Operation Euphrates Rage to retake Raqqa from Daesh in November 2016. Recently, the Syrian rebels launched the fourth stage of their operation to liberate Raqqa. The SDF was formed in 2015 as the defense force of northern Syria's de facto autonomous Rojava federation and is supported by the US-led coalition. The group is among the forces fighting Daesh and brings together Kurdish, Arab, Assyrian and Turkmen fighters, among others. Source: SputnikPUKmedia 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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