Five years later .. Nujaifi reveals the "real cause" of the fall of Mosul

[davis411]

1 hour ago, Wiljor said:

 

Good afternoon Chuck, looks like they are on the final few blocks to wrap this up. Lots happening news wise right now and hopefully soon we all can meet and celebrate with our free Iraqi brothers and sisters. I can see those umbrella drinks already 😀 Wait.......... I'm having one now 😇 Actually I'm up here in Toronto visiting family, but check in every once in a while here in DV. 

A super day up to you bro ✌️

toronto

ontario

 

nice

1 hr north where  I am at

[Wiljor]

1 hour ago, davis411 said:

toronto

ontario

 

nice

1 hr north where  I am at

 

Hey Davis, yep a little break from the tropics, family and good ole Canadian food and wine  nice to make the yearly migration to the homeland, gees glad I brought a jacket  I forgot it doesn't get warm here till July 

[The Englishman]

Iraqi Military Launches Massive Operation to Conclude Mosul Assault

The Iraqi military aims to liberate last neighbourhoods within 72 hours

 

 Basnews English

 28/05/2017 - 14:05

Iraq

 

 

 

 

MOSUL — The Iraqi Federal police forces seized on Sunday vital targets in the Zanjili neighbourhood in west Mosul and the Iraqi military has launched large scale operation to complete the liberation of the city in the next few days.

Federal police chief Major-General Raid Shaker Jawdat, said that the police forces managed on Sunday to control vital targets in the Znjili neighbourhood in west Mosul.

He added "snipers and anti-armoured weapons were spread in the middle of the neighbourhood," pointing out that the field artillery units targeted the Islamic State (IS) militants in north of the Old City district of Mosul."

Moreover, Iraqi military launched on Sunday an extensive military operation to liberate the last neighbourhoods of the city of Mosul, aiming to clear the entire city from IS militants within the next 72 hours.

[ChuckFinley]

Thanks Englishman, would be nice if this was wrapped up in 72 hours.  

[yota691]

(official map) show that Daesh only one area under its control in Mosul , left him

 

 Twilight News    

 

 58 minutes ago

 

 

Twilight News / media cell war published on Sunday Last updated on the map of military operations waged by the Iraqi security forces against al-Daesh in Mosul.

The map showed that he was left to organize hard-line only one area under his control completely in the right side of the city of Mosul.

 

Keywords: 

[nannab]

Good morning Yota. DV.  

[gregp]

10 minutes ago, nannab said:

Good morning Yota. DV.  

 

GM, Nannab, Yogurt 😜and Vets!  👏

 

[bkeiller]

72 hours to comply/die ...

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Mosul: Iraqi forces press ahead in Old City push 

NEWSIRAQ2 HOURS AGO

As humanitarian concerns over Mosul civilians grow, Iraqi forces close in on ISIL positions despite strong resistance.

The Iraqi army says it hopes to capture the last ISIL enclaves outside Mosul's Old City in the next 72 hours, as fighting continued on the second day of a new push to drive the armed group from its remaining pockets in its stronghold in Iraq.

Security forces and their allies on Saturday ramped up an operation that began seven months ago, launching an assault from three fronts to close in on ISIL positions in the neighbourhoods of Shifa, Zinjili and Saha.

Mosul: thousands flee the city as Iraqi forces try to secure west

 

The head of the Iraqi operation said his forces are pushing ISIL fighters back, despite facing strong resistance.

"The fighting is fierce, but our forces managed to kill a number of ISIL fighters, including four suicide attackers," Major General Maan al-Saadi, said.

 

"The battle and the advances are continuing. I guess in 72 hours we will be able to take full control of these neighborhoods, and then we can say that we have besieged the whole Old City of Mosul."

At least 15 Iraqi forces soldiers were killed in the first day of the offensive, security sources said, adding that the armed group had deployed snipers, suicide car bombers and suicide attackers on foot.

More than 30 ISIL fighters were also killed in heavy clashes.

Speaking on condition of anonymity to the Associated Press news agency, two Iraqi military officers described the advance on Mosul's Old City as "cautious" and the clashes on Sunday as "sporadic."

READ MORE: Iraqi artist depicts life under ISIL

 

The three neighbourhoods targeted in the latest offensive, located north of the Old City, are seen as the last areas that separate Iraqi forces from ISIL's last bastion. 

They have narrow streets and closely-spaced buildings, posing significant challenge to the Iraqi forces seeking to oust ISIL, also known as ISIS.

Military and political analysts expect that it could take several days for the Iraqi forces to gain hold of these territories, before making their final push for the Old City.

Separately, the Popular Mobilization Forces - Shia militia fighters that have official status from Baghdad -entered the fourth day of an operation aimed at clearing the main highway that links the recently retaken district of Qairawan to al-Ba'aj, west of Mosul.

The fighters are are planning to establish a secure strategic military line for their forces before they reach the Iraqi-Syrian borders in order to cut off ISIL supply lines and infiltration.

The start of the new push towards the Old City coincided with the start of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.

Residents in the Old City sounded desperate in telephone interviews over the past few days.

"We're waiting for death at any moment, either by bombing or starving," one told the Reuters news agency, asking not to be identified. "Adults eat one meal a day, either flour or lentil soup."

As the fighting intensified, the United Nations expressed "deep concern" for the hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped behind ISIL lines.

US military admits killing more than 100 civilians in Mosul air strike

"Although the UN is not present in the areas where fighting is occurring, we have received very disturbing reports of families being shut inside booby-trapped homes and of children being deliberately targeted by snipers,"  Stephen O'Brien, the UN's under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs, said in a statement on Saturday.

The UN last week said up to 200,000 more people - half of them children - could flee Mosul as fighting moves to the Old City.

About 700,000 people, or a third of the pre-war city's population, have already fled, seeking refuge either with friends and relatives or in camps or neighbouring towns and cities.

In Erbil, east of Mosul, thousands of people have been brought to receive treatment, including many children.

"I was trying to escape from the Old City at 3am and two bullets hit me," a young boy told Al Jazeera from an Erbil hospital. "One ripped through my leg, the other in my groin."

Al Jazeera's Osama bin Javaid, reporting from Erbil, said the child's story is repeated hundreds of times in each hospital of the city. 

"Almost all children in this ward are from the embattled city of Mosul. Most of them have been wounded as they try to reach towards safety, but in densely populated Mosul, where bombs continue to fall and snipers continue to shoot, there is no place that is safe," he said.

READ MORE - In west Mosul, 'nowhere is safe for civilians'

ISIL overran large areas north and west of Baghdad in 2014, but Iraqi forces backed by US-led air raids have since regained much of the territory they lost to the group.

Iraqi forces launched the major operation to retake Mosul in October last year, fighting their way to the city and retaking its eastern side before setting their sights on its smaller but more densely populated west.

The battle has taken a heavy toll on civilians, pushing hundreds of thousands to flee, while hundreds more have been killed or wounded.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/05/mosul-iraqi-forces-press-city-push-170528084002125.html

Edited May 28, 2017 by bkeiller
removed formatting remnants where pictures did not carry over

[yota691]

GMT 10:00 2017 Sunday, May 28 : Last Updated

Iraqi army begins a military operation to take control of the last bastions of the organization of the Islamic State in Mosul

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  An armored Iraqi army monitors the entrance leading to the old city in the west of Mosul

  AFP

 

 

An armored Iraqi army monitors the entrance leading to the old city in the west of Mosul

AFP

 

 

Ethnic forces began to launch a military operation in Mosul against the organization of the Islamic state, and the restoration of the last bastions of the organization, which is the old city and three attached to them in the West Bank neighborhoods, but humanitarian organizations warned of the civilian victim of the crossfire in the fighting zones.

Iraqi warplanes dropped leaflets on the population, and asked them to leave those areas, and flee for their lives, raising fears of humanitarian organizations fear of casualties among civilians trapped in the fighting zones.

He wrote in those publications that "the decisive attack to expel the organization from another stronghold in the city is imminent."

An Iraqi military source, said leaflets dropped on civilians in those areas of the old city, asking civilians to get out of them through the safe corridors established by the army.

The commander of the federal police forces Raed Shakir Jawdat: "The forces of the Federal Police and the gold band and the army stormed the neighborhood Zndjeli and passed the Third Street Bridge north Zndjeli neighborhood of the direction of the old city.

And it entered the battle of the restoration of Mosul, eight months, with the support of the international coalition led by the United States, it took time more than planned, given the fierce resistance received by militants from the organization, and the resort of its elements to the use of civilians as human shields, as well as hunting and car bombs operations which hinder military progress.

The Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi previously announced his expectations, the restoration of Mosul from the organization by the end of the year 2016.

Fears for civilians

AFP An Iraqi woman traveling accompanied by her daughter near the destroyed buildings because of the fighting south of Mosul

The suffering of thousands of civilians stranded in central Mosul, where militants are holed up regulation, a shortage of water and food, and the lack of adequate treatment centers.

Fear humanitarian organizations, including Oxfam that call civilians out of the old Mosul, it may mean that civilians, especially children would be at risk of becoming victims of crossfire.

A number of residents of Mosul, said the organization of Islamic militants, the state resorted to the metal sheets placed between the corrugated gravel roads and walkways inside the alleys, as a warning that the troops are moving, or civilians trying to flee, whenever Clink those plates.

The United Nations said last week that the approach of fighting in the old city of Mosul, has been paid nearly 200 thousand civilians displaced by.

More than 700 thousand civilians from Mosul's residents have fled the fighting, since the battle began the restoration of the city, which was launched in last October.

[Bama Girl]

I pray for the safety of the civilians in the remaining part of Mosul that has to be liberated and all the military fighting to liberate it. ISIS is a very evil group and must be totally eradicated worldwide. 

Edited May 28, 2017 by Bama Girl

[Wiljor]

1 hour ago, Bama Girl said:

I pray for the safety of the civilians in the remaining part of Mosul that has to be liberated and all the military fighting to liberate it. ISIS is a very evil group and must be totally eradicated worldwide. 

 

Amen BG 🙏

[DWS112]

Daesh uses his wives to defend their last strongholds in western Mosul

May 28, 2017

Iraqi military sources reported on Sunday that the organization Daesh began to deploy snipers in the old city of Mosul, along with car bombs and suicide bombers on foot , according to sources. 

Iraqi forces were advancing towards the old city of Mosul cautiously, amid sporadic clashes between the two sides in the vicinity of the Medical City Hospital and Ibn Sina. 

Said Maj . Gen. Maan Al- Saadi , commander of the Second Special Operations forces in the fight against terrorism, said his forces recovered 50% of the health district, explaining that he can not set a time limit for the end of the battle : because many variables on the ground. 

He revealed that al - Saadi seemed Daesh uses women to fight with him, explaining that the organization has lost much of its elements and hired women.

 
Iraqi military sources confirmed that the control of the organization Daesh in the western side of the city of Mosul , an area has shrunk to just 5%, expected to resolve the battle by the first half of next month.

[pokerplayer]

Good Morning DV peeps !!!  I suspect by the end of the day the remaining Daesh roachs will be nothing but blood spots on the hot pavement !! 

 

pp

[DWS112]

Starting wide operations to liberate the rest of Ayman al-Mosul

May, 28, 2017

With weightings to be decisive within the next 72 hours 

BAGHDAD - Osama success: 
revealed joint operations, on Sunday, close Bushra edit Mosul give away completely from the elements Daesh criminal, while likely to be decisive during the next 72 hours.
 
A spokesman for Operations Command Brigadier General Yahya Messenger in an exclusive interview to the newspaper '' morning new '' starting new operations on Sunday, by army troops and the fight against terrorism and the federal police and is making significant progress in the liberation of the vast territory and the support of the Iraqi army aviation, pointing out that " joint military forces and in all axes special operations (coming, Nineveh) progressing in a coordinated manner towards its goals.

 

On the district of Tal Afar , spokesman for the Joint Special Operations Command he noted that " the judiciary and as everyone knows has been cordoned off completely and was also all supply routes regulation cut in addition to that there are ongoing operations targeting" and noted that "military plans ready for editing."
 
" The subject of liberalization district of Tal Afar is entrusted senior military leaders and the commander of the armed forces and his first command , and the latter in the participation of any appropriate sectors , whether anti - terrorism forces or Iraqi army or federal police or the popular crowd forces.

 

For his part , said a security source in the leadership of anti - terrorism, on Sunday, launching a military operation to liberate other neighborhoods of the city of Mosul, while the likely declaration of the city of Mosul - free terrorist organization Daesh during the next 72 hours.
 
The source told the newspaper '' new morning '' that " the process of editing the last neighborhoods of Mosul began at five in the morning on Sunday, in the northern axis , where the health district is located and managed machine forces cleared 50 percent of it."
 
The source revealed that he did not disclose his name, a plan provides for trapping Aldoaash in these neighborhoods where she will meet troops from all the attacking axes.
 
And that " the rebate will be within 72 hours and will announce the city of Mosul , editor - free organization Daesh criminal." 

 

For its part , according to the federal police headquarters, on Sunday, control of its forces on vital targets in Zndjeli neighborhood, right side of the city of Mosul.

 

A police team leader Raed Shakir Jawdat in a statement the newspaper '' new morning '' received a copy of "police forces managed, of Euclid on vital targets in the right neighborhood Zndjeli coast of the city of Mosul." 

 

He added Jawdat, that "were deployed snipers and weapons of anti-wheels armored downtown neighborhood , " pointing out that "field artillery launched a bombardment targeted elements" Daesh "Smalley ancient city of Mosul."
 
In a related context popular forces liberated the crowd, on Sunday, hand Qahtanite, north Baaj, from the control Daesh. 

 

He said the media crowd, in a statement, the newspaper '' morning new '' received a copy of it, that "our forces liberated hand Qahtanite completely after the incurrence elements Daesh great losses in lives and equipment , " pointing out that "our forces started combing operations inside the to eliminate elements Daesh fugitive ". 
So declared war media cell, on Sunday 29 Daasha were killed by air strikes west of Mosul.
 
According to the cell in a statement, the newspaper '' New Morning '' received a copy of it, that " the Army Air face several air strikes, which resulted in the killing of 29 terrorists from the al - Daesh terrorist in the areas of Baaj and Kairouan west of Mosul , " adding that "strikes also resulted in the destruction of six belonging to the terrorist organization 's wheels. " 

 

" The strikes also resulted in the burning tank and motorcycles and Damaging wheel bearing mono and destroy Stacked materiel."

 

[ChuckFinley]

 Still think we are a few days away. This will all depend on the defense posture IS takes, defend in depth or final stand "Strong Point". I have seen anywhere from 72 hours till mid June.  But the bottom line that there is light at the end of that tunnel.  

[deniscanada]

Kinda looks like yesterdays map

[Officiallytook]

5 hours ago, yota691 said:

(official map) show that Daesh only one area under its control in Mosul , left him

 

 Twilight News    

 

 58 minutes ago

 

 

Twilight News / media cell war published on Sunday Last updated on the map of military operations waged by the Iraqi security forces against al-Daesh in Mosul.

The map showed that he was left to organize hard-line only one area under his control completely in the right side of the city of Mosul.

 

Keywords: 

So small...any day now folks...

 

Unless it's done already

Edited May 28, 2017 by Officiallytook

[10 YEARS LATER]

2 hours ago, pokerplayer said:

Good Morning DV peeps !!!  I suspect by the end of the day the remaining Daesh roachs will be nothing but blood spots on the hot pavement !! 

 

pp

 

Thats right ! A BLOT on the sidewalk ! Hose it off and cleanup accomplished ! 

[tigergorzow]

Video: Fierce battles bet. Iraqi forces, ISIS in Mosul's right bank (Video in link)

May 29 2017 12:04 AM

 

A video obtained by The Baghdad Post on Sunday shows the ferocious fighting between the Iraqi forces and ISIS terrorists in the right bank of Mosul.

The footage, posted by Nineveh Media Center, comes at a time when Iraqi military sources confirmed they had controlled more than 95 percent of the city of Mosul.

The US-led coalition is giving air covering for the operations that started on February 19th. 

Mosul fell to ISIS in 2014. 

 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/11269/Video-Fierce-battles-bet-Iraqi-forces-ISIS-in-Mosul-s-right-bank

Edited May 28, 2017 by tigergorzow

[tigergorzow]

14 ISIS elements killed in Mosul

May 28 2017 06:37 PM

Breaking

 

Iraqi forces have killed 14 ISIS terrorists in Mosul, well-informed sources told The Baghdad Post on Sunday. 

Further details will be given when available. 

Since February 19th, the Iraqi army in collaboration with the US-led international coalition has launched an offensive code-named 'We Are Coming, Nineveh' to liberate the right bank of Mosul. 

Iraq's second largest city fell to ISIS in June, 2014. 

 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/11256/14-ISIS-elements-killed-in-Mosul

[tigergorzow]

Exclusive: Map reveals latest developments in battle for Mosul

May 28 2017 09:54 PM

Iraqi forces

 

A map showing the latest development in the battle aiming to regain the right bank of Mosul city from ISIS was obtained by the Baghdad Post on Saturday.

The areas in green illustrate the completely regained ones, areas in orange show the areas currently witnessing clashes while the areas in white are still controlled by ISIS terrorist group.

In a statement, the Center said it renews its commitment to neutrality when covering stories of the battles and the other issues. Our aim is nothing but the truth, the statement concluded. 


Publishing the maps relating to the progress of the Iraqi forces in Mosul is done after contacts with multiple military sources and local officials, it added.




Iraqi Forces launched a major offensive on 19th of February to retake the western part of Mosul after declaring total control of the eastern part of the city on 24th of January as part of the military operations to liberate the city that started on 17th of October 2016.


On Sunday, spokesman of Iraqi Counter Terrorism  Service (CTS) Sabah al-Numan said Mosul city will be fully liberated within days.


Security forces cautiously advance in densely-populated Old City of Mosul in order to  provide safe corridors for civilians, Numan added.

Additionally, Iraqi security sources confirmed to The Baghdad Post the Iraqi army had fully controlled vital positions in Zanjili district in northern Mosul. 
Iraqi forces have killed 14 ISIS terrorists in Mosul, well-informed sources said. 

 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/11263/Exclusive-Map-reveals-latest-developments-in-battle-for-Mosul

[tigergorzow]

Iraqi forces recapture vital positions in Zanjili, northern Mosul

May 28 2017 07:31 PM

Breaking

 

Iraqi security sources confirmed to The Baghdad Post on Sunday the Iraqi army had fully controlled vital positions in Zanjili district in northern Mosul. 

Since February 19th, the Iraqi forces have launched an offensive to retake the right bank of Mosul. 

The US-led coalition is giving an air covering for the operations. 

Mosul fell to ISIS in June, 2014. 

Earlier on Sunday, military sources told The Baghdad Post ISIS only controls five percent of Mosul's western part, expecting the battle will end by the second half of next month at the latest.

Joint security forces have launched a new military operation to recapture three neighborhoods: al-Shifa, al-Zanjili and al-Seha al-Oula.

This operation aims at besieging the Old City, with narrow and branching alleys, which will witness the last chapter of the terrorist group in Iraq.

 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/11258/Iraqi-forces-recapture-vital-positions-in-Zanjili-northern-Mosul

[tigergorzow]

Mosul's full liberation within days - Army

May 28 2017 05:08 PM

Breaking

 

Mosul city will be fully liberated within days, Sabah al-Numan, Spokesman of Iraqi Counter Terrorism  Service (CTS) said on Sunday.

Security forces cautiously advance in densely-populated Old City of Mosul in order to  provide safe corridors for civilians, Numan added.

These efforts come as part of an offensive launched on 19th of February by US-backed Iraqi forces, supported by Iranian-backed sectarian IMIS Shiite militias to oust ISIS terrorists from Mosul, their last major stronghold in Iraq. 
 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/11252/Mosul-s-full-liberation-within-days-Army

[tigergorzow]

ISIS controls only 5% of Mosul's right bank – Military sources

May 28 2017 03:39 PM

Iraqi security forces

 

ISIS only controls 5 percent of Mosul's western part, military sources confirmed on Sunday, expecting the battle will end by the second half of next month at the latest.

Joint security forces have launched a new military operation to recapture three neighborhoods: al-Shifa, al-Zanjili and al-Seha al-Oula.

This operation aims at besieging the Old City, with narrow and branching alleys, which will witness the last chapter of the terrorist group in Iraq.

Iraqi security forces have controlled the third bridge, connecting the two banks of Tigris River and Mosul international hotel, located in al-Shifa neighborhood, after fierce clashes between the two sides.

Controlling the hotel building has enabled the Iraqi security forces to deploy snipers to target ISIS terrorists in the nearby districts.

Battles between the Iraqi security forces and ISIS terrorists has resulted in killing dozens on both sides.

 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/11248/ISIS-controls-only-5-of-Mosul-s-right-bank-Military-sources

[tigergorzow]

Peshmerga forces repel ISIS attack in Salahuddin

May 28 2017 03:00 PM

Peshmerga

 

Peshmerga forces repelled an attack by ISIS terrorist group in Tuz Khurmatu city in the eastern of Salahuddin Governorate, a security source said on Sunday.

The source added that the clashes lasted for hours and resulted in the killing of 12 militants of ISIS group. 

In a statement, the source said that ISIS offensive targeted the headquarters of the 3rd battalion affiliated with the 116th Peshmerga Brigade and caused the injury of three Peshmerga soldiers. 

This comes as the Iraqi forces have been battling the terror group of ISIS since February 19th with the aid of the US-led coalition.

 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/11246/Peshmerga-forces-repel-ISIS-attack-in-Salahuddin