Mosul update

[tigergorzow]

Exclusive: Map reveals latest developments in battle for Mosul

April 17 2017 10:54 AM

Exclusive: Map reveals latest developments in battle for Mosul

 

 

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 Monday.

 

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.

Earlier, Federal Police forces have retaken controlled of al-Hadbaa Minaret of Great Nuri Mosque vicinity in the right bank of Mosul, Federal Police Commander Gen. Raed Shakir Jawdat said.
 

The Great Nuri Mosque is a historical mosque in Mosul, Iraq famous for its leaning minaret which gave the city its nickname "the hunchback".
 

The mosque is where ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi made a rare public appearance after ISIS took control of Mosul city in June 2014.
 

Capturing this Mosque will have a massive hit on ISIS terrorists moral.

The Iraqi forces are continuing the push on ISIS, achieving victories despite cautious progress pursued to spare lives of civilians, he added.

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

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/9449/Exclusive-Map-reveals-latest-developments-in-battle-for-Mosul

[tigergorzow]

60 ISIS terrorists, including senior leader, killed in Mosul

April 17 2017 12:05 PM

60 ISIS terrorists, including senior leader, killed in Mosul

 

 

Iraqi forces killed 60 ISIS terrorists including a senior leader in Farouk district in central Mosul city of Nineveh governorate, Federal Police Commander Gen. Raed Shakir Jawdat said on Monday.
 

In a press release, Jawdat added that the police forces, covered by Iraqi warplanes, drones and artillery, are currently advancing in the western axis of the city in which they aim to control Farouk city that surrounds the famous Nuri Mosque.

He added that the forces also killed a top ISIS leader, Ibrahim Faris aka Azizi Finjo, during the clashes. The forces also destroyed five armored vehicles, eight booby-trapped motorcycles, six anti-aircraft weapons and defused three trapped buildings.

The Iraqi Army launched an offensive on 19^th of February to oust ISIS militants from Mosul their last stronghold in Iraq.

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/9453/60-ISIS-terrorists-including-senior-leader-killed-in-Mosul

[tigergorzow]

Qawqazi, Top ISIS leader, killed in western Mosul

April 17 2017 12:35 PM

Qawqazi, Top ISIS leader, killed in western Mosul

One of the right hands of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was killed on Monday, a local source said.

Unidentified armed men shot down Hasab Allah Al Qawqazi aka Emir Qawqazi near his house in Tal Afar in western Mosul city.
 

ISIS terrorist group deployed its militants in the area to hunt the perpetrators.

The Iraqi Army launched an offensive on 19^th of February to oust ISIS militants from Mosul their last stronghold in Iraq.

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/9455/Qawqazi-Top-ISIS-leader-killed-in-western-Mosul

[tigergorzow]

ISIS health official arrested in southern Tikrit

April 17 2017 01:01 PM

ISIS health official arrested in southern Tikrit

Iraqi security forces arrested ISIS health official Ahmed Ibrahim Hamad Nijm aka Ahmed Qanot in Dhuluiya town in southern Tikrit of Salahuddin governorate, an Iraqi security source said on Monday.
 

The ISIS terrorist was working in Mosul hospital, the source said, adding that he is also the father of terrorist Yassin Ahmed.

The Iraqi Army launched an offensive on 19^th of February to oust ISIS militants from Mosul their last stronghold in Iraq.

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/9457/ISIS-health-official-arrested-in-southern-Tikrit

[tigergorzow]

2nd gas attack launched on Iraq troops in Mosul

April 17 2017 01:31 PM

A member of the Iraqi forces wore a gas mask

 

The spokesman for the Joint Operation Command in Iraq said that the ISIS terrorist group attacked government troops in western Mosul with a type of gas, the second such attack in as many days, Associated Press reported on Monday.

Brigadier General Yahya Rasool said six soldiers suffered breathing problems from the attack on Sunday and were treated in a field clinic. An investigation was launched to determine what type of gas was used.

The attack occurred a day after an Iraqi military officer said ISIS militants launched a gas attack in the al-Abar neighborhood in western Mosul.

Two army officers say masks and other equipment have been distributed to forces in case of future gas attacks. They spoke anonymously as they were not authorized to speak to media.

An officer with the anti-terrorism forces said ISIS fired a rocket loaded with chlorine.

US-backed Iraqi forces are battling ISIS militants in the more densely populated western half of Mosul. Iraqi officials say more than half of western Mosul has been retaken. The extremists were driven out of the eastern half of Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, in January.

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/9459/2nd-gas-attack-launched-on-Iraq-troops-in-Mosul

[tigergorzow]

ISIS navigation experts killed in airstrikes in Mosul

April 17 2017 07:00 PM

ISIS leaders killed in Mosul

 

Airstrikes launched by the fighter jets of the US-led coalition have killed several ISIS navigation experts in the right bank of Mosul, military intelligence directorate declared Monday.

The air raids targeted the terror group's headquarters where drones are warehoused.

Upon receiving intelligence information, US-led jets have bombed warehouses of ISIS drones in the district of al-Islah al-Zeraei in the right bank of Mosul, a statement released by the directorate said.

All the drones spotted at the warehouses have been destroyed and the terror group's experts, mostly foreigners, killed, it added.

The Iraqi Air Force in partnership with the US-led coalition occasionally bomb the positions of ISIS in the right bank of Mosul, destroying its headquarters and killing its ringleaders and rank and file recruits alike. 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/9474/ISIS-navigation-experts-killed-in-airstrikes-in-Mosul

[Wiljor]

Thanks tiger for the continued updates my friend. 

We are getting close DV imo, the liberation of Mosul is the key here to the end of turmoil for Iraq and its citizens and a true value being issued to the Dinar  

[tigergorzow]

Leaflets dropped over Mosul warning locals of continued offensive

April 17 2017 07:18 PM

Leaflets dropped over Mosul

 

Iraqi jets have dropped thousands of leaflets over the right bank of Mosul, which included recommendations for the local residents to avoid the impact of the ongoing military operations in the city.

The leaflets included recommendations for the locals in Mosul to preserve their safety during the ongoing fighting against the terror group of ISIS, military media cell said in a statement.

The Iraqi Air Force in partnership with the US-led coalition occasionally bomb the positions of ISIS in the right bank of Mosul, destroying its headquarters and killing its ringleaders and rank and file recruits alike. 

These efforts, which started last February 19th when the prime minister Haider al-Abadi launched the offensive to liberate the western part of Mosul, are aimed to drive the terror group of ISIS out of the city once part of the terror group's self-styled caliphate.

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/9476/Leaflets-dropped-over-Mosul-warning-locals-of-continued-offensive

[tigergorzow]

Iraqi forces cautiously advance in Old Mosul

April 17 2017 09:36 PM

Mosul battle continuing

 

Iraqi security forces have liberated new parts of the old city of Mosul, a military source told the Baghdad Post on Monday.

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said drones are being used intensively to hit the positions of ISIS entrenched inside houses.

Also, locals said, in a message to the Baghdad Post, that they gunshots and mortar shells rang out in the districts adjacent to the Old Mosul.

This comes as battles against ISIS in Mosul are raging on amid exacerbating human crisis due to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of locals.

Those displaced persons are suffering sharp food and medicine shortages.

The UN said in its weekly statement that security forces had slowed down due to the fact that some 400,000 civilians, or about a quarter of the city's population, are still in the grip of ISIS, which makes it difficult to take control of the remaining districts.
 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/9484/Iraqi-forces-cautiously-advance-in-Old-Mosul

[tigergorzow]

1 minute ago, Wiljor said:

Thanks tiger for the continued updates my friend. 

We are getting close DV imo, the liberation of Mosul is the key here to the end of turmoil for Iraq and its citizens and a true value being issued to the Dinar  

wiljor, You are absolutely correct my friend this thing is about to "POP" for sure.  Iraqi's deserve some peace at last and we all hope that it will be the beginning of a New Era for all....

[tigergorzow]

ISIS site destroyed, 10 terrorists killed in Mosul's right bank

April 17 2017 10:55 PM

Breaking

 

Iraqi security sources announced on Monday an ISIS site was completely destroyed and 10 terrorists were killed in airstrikes in Mosul's right bank, The Baghdad Post reported.

The destroyed bastion was a position for the so-called Abu-Obeida Brigade, the sources added.  

Since February 19, the Iraqi army in partnership with the US-led international coalition launched an offensive code-named 'We Are Coming, Nineveh' to liberate Mosul's right bank, the terror group's last stronghold in Iraq.

But hundreds of civilians were also killed in the strikes. 

In mid-March, Iraqi airstrikes supported by the US-led international coalition killed more than 300 civilians and injured 500 others in Mosul Jadedeh neighborhood.

Iraqi lawmakers and human rights groups have repeatedly warned against strikes that targeted overflowing alleys in the right bank. 

Thousands of Mosul residents have been displaced due to the ongoing battles. 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/9487/ISIS-site-destroyed-10-terrorists-killed-in-Mosul-s-right-bank

[tigergorzow]

ISIS senior commander, aide killed in Mosul's right bank

April 17 2017 01:21 AM

ISIS militants killed

Iraqi Military Intelligence Directorate announced the killing of an ISIS senior leader as well as an aide of Arab origins, The Baghdad Post reported on Sunday. 

A statement released by the directorate said, "An ISIS  commander, Bahaa Jubouri and his aide, Abu Talha, a Palestinian national, were killed in an operation in Mosul's right bank on Sunday".

Since February 19, the Iraqi army, in coallboration with the US-led International Coalition, has launched an offensive code-named 'We are Coming, Nineveh' to liberate the right bank of the city. 

Mosul fell to ISIS in June, 2014. 

The left bank of the city was utterly liberated from the terror group. 

Now, fierce battles are going on in the right bank, the terror group's last stronghold in Iraq. 

But hundreds of civilians have been killed in airstrikes that depended on misleading security tip-offs provided by Iranian spies who penetrated the Iraqi security apparatus

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/9446/ISIS-senior-commander-aide-killed-in-Mosul-s-right-bank

[tigergorzow]

Three Senior IS Officials Killed in Mosul

The Iraqi nationals were killed in different locations

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Basnews English

17/04/2017 - 19:47

Iraq

 

 

ERBIL— Three senior Islamic State (IS) officials have been killed on the right bank of Mosul since Sunday evening during the airstrikes and clashes with the Iraqi forces, Iraqi media reported.

The IS officials were all Iraqi nationals, the reports cited Abdul-Salam al-Jobouri, an Iraqi army officer as saying.

Ibrahim Fars Anzi, originally from Gayara district of Mosul, who was a security chief of the jihadists, was killed in an airstrike on Monday.

Also on Monday during clashes in the Tank neighborhood of Mosul, the chief for IS religious sermon and mosques, Ali Ibrahim Mohammed, from Shirgat of Mosul, was gunned down.

Abu Qafaha, a senior chief from the IS Services Council who was also the former IS emir in Faruq district was killed by the SWAT forces in the old part of Mosul on Sunday evening.  

 

http://www.basnews.com/index.php/en/news/iraq/343707

[tigergorzow]

75% of West Mosul Under Iraqi Forces' Control

Hundreds of civilians have died over the past weeks in airstrikes

 

Shoguna B. Sobir

17/04/2017 - 18:47

Iraq

 

MOSUL — Hundreds of civilians have been killed over the past weeks as a result of airstrikes by the US-led international anti-Islamic State (IS) coalition forces in Mosul, according to the Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights (IOHR) report released on Sunday.

The latest airstrikes resulting in civilian deaths occurred on April 15 in the Bab Sinjar area, where “42 members of Ghanem Subheya’s family were killed after an airstrike hit their home in the morning hours,” a local resident told IOHR. Another two-story house was hit in the Al Islah Al Zera’y neighborhood the same day.

Though the operation to recapture Mosul from IS militants is progressing in western Mosul, with the Iraqi forces now controlling 75 percent of the western side, according to Hossam al-Abbar, a member of the Nineveh province council, the coalition forces have not “taken any further action to spare civilians its fire, aimed at destroying ISIS targets,” the IOHR claim.

Earlier on April 10, five families in the Al-Yarmouk neighbourhood were killed by an airstrike. Thirty people died as a result. Though the house was targeted because an IS militant was present on its roof, the strike was launched an hour after the militant had escaped. Another strike which was launched the same day, killed an additional 14 people.

“No distinction [is being made] between civilian and military objects during the battles to liberate Mosul’s right coast,” according to the IOHR.

The international coalition forces must use caution and precise accuracy for identifying IS targets, in order to avoid more civilian deaths.

“Civilians’ safety and protection must be prioritized during air raids against ISIS,” stressed the IOHR.

http://www.basnews.com/index.php/en/news/iraq/343692

[ChuckFinley]

Sr. IS Leadership is getting Wacked every time I open this thread. At this rate Sr. Leadership will be based on how many minutes you where there before the next guy in line.  I hope they get every last one of them before this is over.  

[MyLadiesDaddy]

34 minutes ago, tigergorzow said:

75% of West Mosul Under Iraqi Forces' Control

Hundreds of civilians have died over the past weeks in airstrikes

 

 

Shoguna B. Sobir

17/04/2017 - 18:47

Iraq

 

MOSUL — Hundreds of civilians have been killed over the past weeks as a result of airstrikes by the US-led international anti-Islamic State (IS) coalition forces in Mosul, according to the Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights (IOHR) report released on Sunday.

The latest airstrikes resulting in civilian deaths occurred on April 15 in the Bab Sinjar area, where “42 members of Ghanem Subheya’s family were killed after an airstrike hit their home in the morning hours,” a local resident told IOHR. Another two-story house was hit in the Al Islah Al Zera’y neighborhood the same day.

Though the operation to recapture Mosul from IS militants is progressing in western Mosul, with the Iraqi forces now controlling 75 percent of the western side, according to Hossam al-Abbar, a member of the Nineveh province council, the coalition forces have not “taken any further action to spare civilians its fire, aimed at destroying ISIS targets,” the IOHR claim.

Earlier on April 10, five families in the Al-Yarmouk neighbourhood were killed by an airstrike. Thirty people died as a result. Though the house was targeted because an IS militant was present on its roof, the strike was launched an hour after the militant had escaped. Another strike which was launched the same day, killed an additional 14 people.

“No distinction [is being made] between civilian and military objects during the battles to liberate Mosul’s right coast,” according to the IOHR.

The international coalition forces must use caution and precise accuracy for identifying IS targets, in order to avoid more civilian deaths.

“Civilians’ safety and protection must be prioritized during air raids against ISIS,” stressed the IOHR.

http://www.basnews.com/index.php/en/news/iraq/343692

Their lucky this isn't WW2, because then the entire city would have been carpet bombed from B-52s. If ya don't want collateral damage then don't allow the most evil this world has seen in a long time take over your city. 

[ChuckFinley]

You are absolutely correct. Take a look at London and Berlin during WWII. Those city were leveled.  

[tigergorzow]

1 hour ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

Their lucky this isn't WW2, because then the entire city would have been carpet bombed from B-52s. If ya don't want collateral damage then don't allow the most evil this world has seen in a long time take over your city. 

LGD,  CF,  !00% agree and Maliki needs to be hung downtown Baghdad in Tahir Square for allowing ISIS to run rampant across Iraq major cities and kill innocent men, women & children.   I pray that he meets his maker in the very near term.

 

GO JUSTICE!!

[TexasMike1958]

47 minutes ago, tigergorzow said:

LGD,  CF,  !00% agree and Maliki needs to be hung downtown Baghdad in Tahir Square for allowing ISIS to run rampant across Iraq major cities and kill innocent men, women & children.   I pray that he meets his maker in the very near term.

 

GO JUSTICE!!

Maybe his maker should be MOAB

[yota691]

Iraqi forces are fighting a street war as the battle of Mosul enters its seventh month

  Date of publication: 18 April 2017

 

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi forces have made new gains in fighting from house to house in the old city of Mosul as the US-backed campaign to regain control of the main bastion of the Islamic state came to its seventh month, a military spokesman said yesterday. "Police forces are engaged in a difficult battle from one house to another, with fighters fighting inside the old neighborhood," a police official said. He said drones were being used extensively to direct air strikes against hardline militants among civilians. The soldiers are putting the al-Nuri Mosque with its famous minaret in view since last month because control of it would represent a major symbolic victory for militants. A police spokesman said soldiers were tightening the noose on the mosque without specifying the remaining distance. The United Nations says troops have slowed because some 400,000 civilians or a quarter of Mosul's pre-war population are trapped in neighborhoods still under militant control. 
The organization said in a statement yesterday that an estimated half a million people are still in the neighborhoods under the control of militants in western Mosul. "Civilians in Mosul face enormous and appalling risks," said Liz Grandy, UN humanitarian coordinator for Iraq. "They are exposed to gunfire and artillery shelling, as families are depleting supplies, drugs are running out and water is running out." Grandi says more than 327,000 people have fled the fighting since the operation began on Oct. 17 with air and ground support from the US-led coalition. "Mosul has exhausted our operational capabilities," she said. Militants took control of Mosul, the largest city in northern Iraq, in mid-2014. Government forces, including the army, police and anti-terror apparatus, have taken over most of the city, including the section east of the Tigris River. The militants are now under siege on the northwest side of the old quarter, using booby traps, snipers and mortar bombs against attacking forces. 
Police on Sunday reported a poison gas attack on their soldiers that resulted in no deaths. She said militants were increasingly resorting to suicide car bombs. The narrow alleys were used without militants using mined vehicles and government forces using tanks, armored personnel carriers and Humvees. The United Nations said last month that 12 people, including women and children, had been treated for possible chemical weapons attacks in Mosul, but Iraqi Ambassador to the United Nations Mohammad Ali al-Hakim said days later there was no evidence. Aid groups say the fighting has killed several thousand people, including civilians and fighters from both sides. Residents who managed to escape from the old neighborhood said that almost nothing is eaten except flour mixed with water. The rest of the food is sold at a price that exceeds the capacity of most of the population or is maintained by members of the Islamic state and their supporters.

[Luigi1]

Luigi says...

All more the reason...urgency to get ER done.

 

UN says Mosul operation has displaced nearly half a million

Nearly half a million people have fled their homes since Iraqi forces launched an operation to wrest Mosul back from jihadists exactly six months ago, the United Nations said Monday.

Iraqi forces began the country’s biggest military operation in years on October 17 last year and recaptured the east side of the city in January.

But an assault launched the following month on the part of Mosul that lies west of the Tigris river has seen a sharp rise in displacement.

“The sheer volume of civilians still fleeing Mosul city is staggering,” Lise Grande, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator in Iraq, said in a statement.

“Our worst case scenario when the fighting started was that up to one million civilians may flee Mosul. Already, more than 493,000 people have left, leaving almost everything behind,” she said.

Iraqi forces have been making significant gains in west Mosul over the past two months but the toughest battles could yet lie ahead, with diehard Islamic State group jihadists hunkering down in the treacherous streets of the Old City.

The UN estimated that another half million civilians were still in IS-controlled areas of west Mosul.

“Mosul has pushed us to our operational limits,” said Grande.

UN chief Antonio Guterres said on March 31 during a visit to a displacement camp near Mosul that the aid effort was woefully underfunded and called for greater international solidarity.

Around two thirds of the overall number of displaced people fled their homes in west Mosul over the past two months alone.

[boosterbglee]

Wow Luigi...Thanks and welcome to Earth! 

[Wiljor]

Thanks Luigi,

Better half a million displaced rather then killed. Soon these poor people will return to their homes, or at least what's left of them and Abadi will facilitate accessible options for them to get a loan and rebuild. We are seeing this daily in other articles were banks are lending and the flow of money slowly but surly beginning to take shape. 

 

[10 YEARS LATER]

Says the spokesman for the MOST CORRUPT organization on the planet, which stood by and did nothing. 

[Wiljor]

Iraq, April 17, 2017 

Thibaniya (Reuters) Flooding has made all bridges across the Tigris in and out of western Mosul impassable, cutting off aid supplies and escape routes for people fleeing the Islamic State-held part of the Iraqi city.

With the bridges down, hundreds of civilians crossed the surging river on small wooden boats on Sunday, some carrying babies and all carting suitcases or bags full of clothes.

They were some of the around 400,000 people still in western Mosul where Iraqi military forces are trying to dislodge IS from the Old City.

iraqinews

http://iraqdailyjournal.com/story-z15135848