Nearly 3 years after Da'ish took the city... #Iraq's flag has been raised above #Mosul's government buildings

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17 hours ago, TexasMike1958 said:

a recent article said there were about 10,000 ISIS fighters left..... make that 9980

TM1958,  Here is an article posted by Yota earlier today.

Monday , March 6, 2017 - 12:38 GMT | Posted Number: 23800

Gen. Robert Jones, commander of the British forces, which are fighting organization "Daesh" in the territory of Iraq, that the majority of the group's leaders, died revealed, adding that the connector on the verge of liberation, which would make the defeat of the terrorist group in Iraq "inevitable."

Jones confirmed that the remaining militants alive are about 1,500 fighters trapped in the western areas, in Iraq's second city, which was declared by the Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of "Daesh," an Islamic caliphate in the Nuri mosque in 2014. He pledged the coalition led by the United States to prosecute leaders "Daesh" and eliminate the "head of the snake."

 

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Mass Grave of Civilians Found in Mosul after Ousting IS

The mass grave contains at least 50 bodies of civilian victims of IS brutality 

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Basnews English

06/03/2017 - 23:17

 

 

MOSUL — Iraq government forces on Monday discovered a mass grave in western Mosul where Islamic State (IS) militants had buried tens of executed civilians.

Nineveh Police officer Ali Mohsin told BasNews that mass grave, locate in Yarmouk neighborhood of Mosul, contains at least 50 bodies, killed by IS before they were ousted from the neighborhood.

He further revealed that US-led coalition air power has targeted a convoy of IS vehicles in Qabir Bint district of western Mosul, killing at least 14 jihadists and wounding many more.

Following the full liberation of eastern mosul earlier this year, the Iraqi forces in February launched a major-scale assault backed by the coalition warplanes to reclaim the remaining western parts of the city. Fierce confrontations are ongoing in the area with the Iraqi soldiers making territorial gains against IS.

http://www.basnews.com/index.php/en/news/iraq/334766

Edited March 6, 2017 by tigergorzow

[ChuckFinley]

Anything less than rounding up all captures ISIS members and burn at the stake live on international TV. I guess you can see why on not in the military anymore. I would be sending a clear message about joining this group. 

[SocalDinar]

Things sure seemed a heck of a lot more promising before Obummer bailed on Iraq. Daesh was only a small militant group which could have and was being easily handled.

Now we are happy about te liberation of Mosul which is only half complete. What a mess we left due to our woosey president at the time. glad we finally have a leader!

[tigergorzow]

9 Airstrikes In Iraq Destroy Large Number Of IS Facilities

Mira Rojkan

07/03/2017 - 00:15

 

MOSUL — The US-led coalition conducted nine airstrikes consisting of 72 engagements against the Islamic State (IS) near Kisik, Mosul, Sinjar and Tal Afar in Iraq.

Near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul six airstrikes engaged with six IS tactical units and a staging area, destroying 11 fighting positions, 8 mortar systems and a number of vehicles, buildings, weapons, roadblocks and an artillery system. The strikes have further managed to destroy at least 11 supply routes suppressing ten mortar teams and three tactical units.

Another three airstrikes near Kisik, Sinjar and Tal Afar destroyed an improvised weapons facility, several tactical units, vehicles, a fighting position and a cave entrance, Sputnik reported on Monday.

The US-led coalition continues conducting airstrikes against the IS militants in Syria and Iraq. The strikes in Iraq are conducted in support of the Iraqi government and the Iraqi army who continue to advance against IS in Mosul, as part of the ongoing operation for liberating the city from the terrorist group.

http://www.basnews.com/index.php/en/news/iraq/334769

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72,000 IDPs Returned to Liberates Eastern Mosul: Ministry

07/03/2017 - 01:15

 

MOSUL — At least 72,000 IDPs have so far returned to their homes in the liberated neighborhoods of eastern Mosul, said and Iraqi official.

“Emergency response teams from Iraq’s Ministry of Migration and Displacement have delivered 350,000 tons of humanitarian supplies to the newly-liberated district of Wadi Hajar in western Mosul,” said ministry spokesperson Sattar Nawroz.

He further revealed that 57,000 civilians have recently been displaced from western Mosul where heavy clashes continue between Islamic State (IS) and the Iraqi government forces.

The total number of Mosul IDPs has reached to 287,000 people, according to Nawroz.

http://www.basnews.com/index.php/en/news/iraq/334770

[tigergorzow]

Iraqi forces pummeling ISIS in Mosul as they liberate a new district

By

Paul Antonopoulos

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06/03/2017

The Al-Sumood in Western Mosul has been fully liberated by Iraqi special forces.

The recapture of the district by the Iraqi special forces from ISIS happened on Sunday.

With Al-Sumood secured, the Iraqi special forces have begun making progress in Mansour and Shuhada.

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/iraqi-forces-pummeling-isis-in-mosul-as-they-liberate-a-new-district/

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Video: Displaced people at Hassan Sham camp retell ISIS’ attempts to prevent Mosul exodus

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Paul Antonopoulos

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06/03/2017

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People who fled from the embattled city of Mosul to the Hassan Sham refugee camp, spoke about the conflict in an RT Exclusive released on Monday.

Speaking about the ways that ISIS is preventing people from fleeing the war-torn city, one IDP said: “ISIS has started breaking people’s legs, men’s, women’s, to stop them from fleeing the city.”

This revelation comes as Iraqi forces are engaged with ISIS in bitter battles in the western areas of Mosul.

Iraqi forces has made progress today, capturing a vital bridge and a new district.

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/video-displaced-people-hassan-sham-camp-retell-isis-attempts-prevent-mosul-exodus/

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Battle for Mosul: Who controls what

Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, is now the scene of a battle for control between Iraqi, Kurdish, and ISIL forces.

Yarno Ritzen |

06 Mar 2017 19:50 GMT |

 

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• In June 2014, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) forces captured Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city. Over two years later, it is ISIL's last stronghold in the country.

The city, which still houses more than one million people, is now being besieged on all sides by a coalition of Iraqi and Kurdish troops, with additional support from Western forces. If ISIL is driven out of the city, the armed group no longer has any significant presence in Iraq, as this map of control shows.

According to the United Nations, the battle for Mosul has the potential to become one of the largest humanitarian disasters in history. 

Shown below are a map of the broader Mosul area and which faction controls which area, and a map showing the city of Mosul with its most important roads and who controls which areas inside the city.

Source: Al Jazeera News

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2016/10/battle-mosul-controls-map-161023134534524.html

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The fight to retake Mosul at a critical stage (Video in link)

 

CBS News Videos•March 6, 2017

The battle to liberate Iraq's second largest city from Mosul has come to a critical stage. Iraqi troops backed by U.S airstrikes and special operation forces are now moving into the western part of the city. Holly Williams reports from Iraq.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fight-retake-mosul-critical-stage-235846103.html

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IS preacher shot dead by gunmen in western Mosul

by Mohamed Mostafa Mar 6, 2017, 2:07 pm

Checkpoint belonging to the Islamic State.

 

Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Unknown gunmen shot dead a preacher from the Islamic State and a companion in western Mosul, sources said as government troops become closer to the group’s strongholds in central Mosul.

Alsumaria News quoted a local source saying that “Abu Huthaifa”, an Iraqi, was gunned down along with another member in Zanjili, a district north of Mosul’s Old City, the target of current Iraqi forces operations in western Mosul.

According to the source, the attack, having occurred in areas under IS control prompted the extremist group to launch searches for perpetrators and arrest some suspects.

Earlier on Monday, Iraqi forces recaptured recaptured al-Sumoud district before storming the nearby al-Mansour, all near the city center.

Old Mosul is a major target for U.S.-backed Iraqi forces seeking to clear the western side of the city from militants. It is home of a government compound, the recapture of which is believed to be highly decisive in ending the campaign in the government forces’ favor.

Shortly earlier, news reports quoted security officials saying the forces took over a major bridge leading to the Old City.

Mosul fell to IS militants in 2014, and had been proclaimed as the capital of the group’s “Islamic Caliphate” before Iraqi forces retook the eastern part late January.

Iraqi and coalition generals had predicted the city to be retaken within six months from the start of the operations in the west.

http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/preacher-shot-dead-gunmen-western-mosul/

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Iraqi Captain Rambo kills 260 militants and fills IS with dread

by Loaa Adel Mar 6, 2017, 6:34 pm

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Iraqi sniper Muhammad Ali Karim, known as Captain Rambo.

 

Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Muhammad Ali Karim is an Iraqi-Kurdish sniper and soldier in the Peshmerga forces fighting the extremist Islamic State in Iraq, and due to his extraordinary courage and daring, he is known as Captain Rambo.

Muhammad killed 260 militants and is considered a threat to the Islamic State group, so it placed a large reward on his head.

Rambo, who was born in 1977, has always been prepared to defend his homeland, and was trained by his father who was a Peshmerga sniper fighting the old regime.

He lived briefly in Norway but returned home in 2014 to join the fight against the Islamic State, after being sickened by atrocities carried out by the group and its ideology of hate and cruelty.

“As soon as Daesh invaded my country (in June 2014) I returned to Kurdistan to destroy this evil,” he says. “I want to kill them, get rid of them, because they are not human, they are evil,” he added.

Now, he serves as a lieutenant in Unit 70, one of three Kurdish brigades formed in 2015 with soldiers belonging to the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, in an attempt to unify rival Kurdish groups.

 

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http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/iraqi-captain-rambo-kills-260-militants-fills-dread/

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UPDATED: Iraqi forces recapture several govt facilities in western Mosul

 

by Mohamed Mostafa Mar 6, 2017, 5:54 pm

 

 

 

Military vehicles of federal police are seen during a battle with Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq, March 6, 2017. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani – RTS11N8V

 

Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi forces recaptured more government facilities and a district in western Mosul on Monday as they pushed closer to the Old City to clear the district from Islamic State militants.

The Federal Police command said in a statement that the service, aided by the Rapid Response forces, took over the water and sewage department’s offices in western Mosul’s district of Dindan, raising the Iraqi flags above the facility. It added that the forces also recaptured the “police directorate and the courts complex”.

Other news reports quoted security sources saying that the troops also took over Dour al-Sukar district in the south.

Earlier on Monday, Iraqi forces recaptured recaptured al-Sumoud district before storming the nearby al-Mansour, all near the city center.

Old Mosul is a major target for U.S.-backed Iraqi forces seeking to clear the western side of the city from militants. It is home of a government compound, the recapture of which is believed to be highly decisive in ending the campaign in the government forces’ favor.

Shortly earlier, news reports quoted security officials saying the forces took over al-Hurriya, major bridge leading to the Old City.

Mosul fell to IS militants in 2014, and had been proclaimed as the capital of the group’s “Islamic Caliphate” before Iraqi forces retook the eastern part late January.

Iraqi and coalition generals had predicted the city to be retaken within six months from the start of the operations in the west.

http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/police-forces-recapture-govt-district-western-mosul/

Edited March 7, 2017 by tigergorzow

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1 hour ago, tigergorzow said:

Iraqi Captain Rambo kills 260 militants and fills IS with dread

by Loaa Adel Mar 6, 2017, 6:34 pm

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Iraqi sniper Muhammad Ali Karim, known as Captain Rambo.

 

 

Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Muhammad Ali Karim is an Iraqi-Kurdish sniper and soldier in the Peshmerga forces fighting the extremist Islamic State in Iraq, and due to his extraordinary courage and daring, he is known as Captain Rambo.

Muhammad killed 260 militants and is considered a threat to the Islamic State group, so it placed a large reward on his head.

Rambo, who was born in 1977, has always been prepared to defend his homeland, and was trained by his father who was a Peshmerga sniper fighting the old regime.

He lived briefly in Norway but returned home in 2014 to join the fight against the Islamic State, after being sickened by atrocities carried out by the group and its ideology of hate and cruelty.

“As soon as Daesh invaded my country (in June 2014) I returned to Kurdistan to destroy this evil,” he says. “I want to kill them, get rid of them, because they are not human, they are evil,” he added.

Now, he serves as a lieutenant in Unit 70, one of three Kurdish brigades formed in 2015 with soldiers belonging to the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, in an attempt to unify rival Kurdish groups.

 

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http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/iraqi-captain-rambo-kills-260-militants-fills-dread/

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Slogans pledge to «open Rome» and the victory over the «international coalition»

A tunnel for trains turning to a secret training camp for «Daesh» underground

Date of publication: 07/03/2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beholder hardly noticed the entrance to the tunnel in the hillside mud oversees Mosul , where now raging clashes between Iraqi forces and fighters of the organization «Daesh». 
Trains in the past to pass through this tunnel on its way from Mosul to it, but the militants blocked the entrances, and they took off the rails, and set up a track to train recruits on offensive operations when it overran the area in the summer of 2014. Iraqi forces discovered a secret training camp under the ground after he regained control of the hill last month in the early stages of an offensive to wrest control of the western part of the city of Mosul from the hands of militants. Some area residents volunteered to inform the Iraqi forces positioned camp , which reveals how the design of the organization to fight, despite the fact that the attacking forces frequently superiority in numbers and firepower, and supported by the US - led coalition. 
Iraqi soldiers climb a pile of dirt to hide the entrance to the tunnel, and then they went down, and the income from slot height of about seven meters by five meters, on portable Hoatvhma lights. The soldiers shed light on slogans «Daesh» started painting on the walls of the tunnel with a length of about half a kilometer, and a series of obstacles and claimed one of them tried it himself.

 

Kadhim al - Gharawi, one of the rapid reaction task force said one of the special units of the Interior Ministry «training is like our training. This special training for special forces. » It is not clear how many recruits who were trained in this camp, or what happened to them. And complement physical exercises intellectual setting when the organization , which emerged in the subdirectories scattered on the ground of the tunnel manuals. On the ground was a booklet on pagan types lying next to empty boxes of cans he drank orange juice inductees, cans and shoes, headwear and face, they were wearing not only their eyes showing them. 
Held the railway line in the early twentieth century in the context of pipeline project linking Berlin Baghdad. The line was not used when the organization swept through Mosul in the summer of 2014 on a mural in the tunnel is painted with a red - colored sun disk Gan wrote the words «God willing , we will open Rome.» Near the beginning of the offensive coaching track the number of bags backpacks filled with sand to be carried by recruits during their training to increase the difficulty of crossing barriers. After climbing the high wall using a rope recruits move to casual iron moving them into their own hands, and hung their bodies and then throw themselves on the ground and crawling under barbed wire and a wall beside them wrote it «will prevail despite the global coalition». And red indicates the direction in which the shares to climb the wall are still traces of their feet. It seems that the soldiers were sleeping in the area for some time, as it existed in two rooms Hfra family on both sides of the tunnel in one duvet cover pink color, is decorated in a cartoon character Mickey Mouse. The hard - liners installed means of lighting in the tunnel works by using electricity exists on the hillside generator. There was a medical clinic in mobile cabins, four cabins for showers, dedicated to wash in a section of the tunnel and place it wrote «mosque». 

 

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54 minutes ago, yota691 said:

 

Question: What the BEST way to take a bridge ?

Answer: Both sides at once.

Concentrated Assault near side, river assault to take the far side. A heavy & sustained Artillery Barrage High Explosives & Plenty of Smoke for the river assault always helps. Night Assault is always best.

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Rudaw English‏Verified account @RudawEnglish 16m16 minutes ago

 

#BREAKING: The governor's building in #Mosul recaptured by Iraqi armed forces following three years of #ISIS takeover — State TV.

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https://twitter.com/RudawEnglish

[MyLadiesDaddy]

Folks, when ya start getting that much video from the front lines you know that things are coming to the end. I suspect that this will be in the mop up position by this weekend. 

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Nearly 3 years after Da'ish took the city... #Iraq's flag has been raised above #Mosul's government buildings

 

[blueskyline]

Thanks Yota . More great progress/ news !

[Dinar4Dinner]

Reuters VideosMarch 7, 2017

Elite Iraqi security forces dislodged Islamic State militants from the main government buildings in Mosul on Tuesday, their last major city stronghold in Iraq. Rosanna Philpott reports.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/iraqi-troops-seize-mosul-government-130313889.html