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

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IS detain 850 people in Kirkuk as potential human shields: tribal leader

 

by Mohamed Mostafa May 31, 2017, 1:46 pm

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Families fleeing ISIS-held city of Hawija.

 

Hawija (IraqiNews.com)  Islamic State militants have evacuated 850 civilians and burned their residences at the group’s main stronghold in Kirkuk to use them as future human shields, said a tribal leader.

Anwar al-Assi, who leads a tribal force combating Islamic State militants in Hawija, said in a press statement on Wednesday that Islamic State members transferred the civilians to a main playfield preparing to use them as human shields in case security forces charge at the town.

Assi said he had received information that IS executed 36 men in two days, but did not give more details about the reason or location of the execution.

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IS members have been in control over Hawija, southwest of Kirkuk, since 2014, when the group came to the scene, took over several Iraqi regions and proclaimed an Islamic “caliphate”.

Iraqi government forces, backed by a U.S.-led coalition and paramilitary troops, launched an offensive in October to retake the city of Mosul, Islamic State’s largest urban stronghold in Iraq. The Iraqi government is planning to aim at other IS havens across Iraq after Mosul.

Local officials in Hawija have repeatedly urged the government to hasten with the liberation of their town.

Since taking over Iraqi regions, Islamic State members have executed dozens of civilians, security members and many of its own members for various reasons ranging from collaboration with security forces to attempting to flee areas under the group’s control, most notably Hawija.

 

http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/islamic-state-detain-850-people-kirkuk-potential-human-shields-tribal-leader/

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22 ISIS terrorists killed in Iraqi airstrikes in Anbar

May 31 2017 09:25 PM

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Iraqi air strikes have killed 22 ISIS terrorists and destroyed an explosives workshop in Anbar governorate in western Iraq, security sources told The Baghdad Post on Wednesday. 

In a press statement, Iraqi Air Force Command said, "Based upon accurate intelligence information, airstrikes targeted an explosives workshop and killed 22 ISIS terrorists".

The statement confirmed large amount of C4 explosive substance was found. 

The operation comes within the framework of an offensive launched in October, 2016 to regain the ISIS-held districts in Iraq. 

In 2014, the terror group captured large swathes of Iraq and Syria. 

Since 2003, Iraq has witnesses thousands of bombings that left tens of thousands killed. 

 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/11391/22-ISIS-terrorists-killed-in-Iraqi-airstrikes-in-Anbar

[ChuckFinley]

5 hours ago, tigergorzow said:

Grand Al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul Surrounded by IS Militants 

 

Shoguna B. Sobir

31/05/2017 - 19:30

Iraq

 

 

 

 

 

MOSUL — The Grand al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul wherein the Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had announced the establishment of the self-proclaimed caliphate in 2014 has been surrounded by IS militants. The streets around the Mosque have been closed, according to local residents.

For the past two days, residents have been witnessing IS militants taking up positions around the famous mosque located in the Old City neighborhood in western part of the city. It is this neighborhood which has been difficult to penetrate, requiring the opening on a new front from the northern side earlier this month after the advancement from the southern side stalled.

Currently about 200,000 people are residing in IS controlled areas of the town.

The operation to oust IS militants from the city began on October 17, 2016. Eastern half of the city was declared liberated in January, with the Iraqi and the US-led international coalition forces advancing into the western side in February. 

 

http://www.basnews.com/index.php/en/news/iraq/354446

Ok, this is what I met in my earlier post about a "Strong Point". This will be the end or right there when this goes down.  

[tigergorzow]

IS Calls on Followers to Use eBay for Terrorist Attacks

 

Shoguna B. Sobir

01/06/2017 - 00:25

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ISTANBUL — The latest issue of the Islamic State’s English language magazine Rumiyah is urging its followers to use popular buy-and-sell platforms such as eBay, Craigslist and Gumtree to lure users in order to take them hostage and use them for attacks.

Out of several suggested ways to use these sites, the article titled "Just Terror Tactics" recommends posting fake for-sale ads and then arranging a meeting for the exchange, whereupon the unsuspecting person can be attacked, taken hostage or killed.

"Online sales by way of buy and sell websites such as Craigslist, Gumtree, eBay, the Loot, and others are an alternative means to luring one's victims," an article notes.

"The viewing and collecting of the item should be arranged to be at the location where one seeks to carry out his operation. Upon the target's arrival, one can then proceed to initiate his attack."

Other suggested options include posting fake ads for jobs or properties for rent. The article also explains how to subdue and restrain the targeted person before killing them.

“The viewing and collecting of the item should be arranged to be at the location where one seeks to carry out his operation,” the article reads, urging the instigators of such attacks to meet in busy public places.

“Upon the target’s arrival, one can then proceed to initiate his attack.”

Reportedly the use of dating apps and other sites such as Airbnb could also be potentially used by the terrorist group.

 

http://www.basnews.com/index.php/en/news/world/354498

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Co-founder of IS’s Amaq News Agency Killed

 

Basnews English

01/06/2017 - 02:50

Middle East

 

 

 

ERBIL — The co-founder of Islamic State’s Amaq News Agency has been killed in an airstrike carried out by the US-led coalition in Syria, unverified reports said.

Rayan Mash’al, also known as Muhammad Bara’a Qadek, was killed in the IS-held Mayadin city of Deir Ezzor province.

In 2013, he joined IS and, together with a group of activists, founded Amaq.

He had worked as a journalist for a pro-Syrian opposition media outlet in Aleppo before joining the jihadist group.

 

http://www.basnews.com/index.php/en/news/middle-east/354503

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47 Civilians Killed in West Mosul

 

Mira Rojkan

01/06/2017 - 03:00

Iraq

 

 

 

LEEDS — Forty-seven civilians were killed in attacks carried out by the so-called Islamic State (IS) and airstrike conducted by coalition warplanes in residential parts of western Mosul, according to an Iraqi police source.

Police Captain Safok Mohamed al-Juhaishi told Anadolu Agency on Wednesday that the IS militants executed 34 civilians, who tried to flee western Mosul, including women and children. Juhaishi added that the extremists then threw the dead bodies around the streets to serve as an example for others, who may try to escape the areas. 

The police captain also said that US-led coalition aircraft destroyed a car bomb that targeted federal police units in the district of Zanjili in western Mosul. However, the explosion led to the death of the IS suicide bomber, but also killing 13 civilians in a nearby building. The coalition has not yet come out with any official statements, in regards to the civilian casualties. 

The US-led coalition includes 68 nations, who have been supporting the government of Iraq since the beginning of the operation against IS in Mosul last October. 

 

http://www.basnews.com/index.php/en/news/iraq/354505

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WHO, UNFPA Scale up Trauma, Emergency Obstetric Response for Mosul IDPs

 

Basnews English

01/06/2017 - 02:45

Iraq

 

 

 

BAGHDAD — The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) are extremely concerned about the health conditions of about 180 000 men, women and children that are reportedly still trapped inside west Mosul’s old city where access to health care services has been limited.

Tens of thousands of vulnerable women, children, and elderly in the old City are highly at risk to war related injuries, outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, waterborne diseases and acute diarrhoea, severe dehydration, possible forms of malnutrition, as well as critical reproductive health needs including maternal and new born care and management of complicated pregnancies.

The already high number of 6906 trauma casualties recorded from west Mosul during the period from February and May (as of 28 May 2017) is expected to further increase as the conflict deepens into the old city.  It is anticipated that those fleeing combat zones will be arriving to mustering points and camps with deteriorated health conditions requiring urgent medical attention.

In order to be ready to respond to these health needs, WHO and UNFPA in support of the MOH, have scaled up their emergency response capacity around Mosul’s city to ensure that civilians can have access to trauma care, primary health care and reproductive health services.  Specifically, WHO and partners are increasing the number of trauma stabilization points, prepositioning trauma supplies, life-saving medicines and supplies at and around mustering points and camps expected.

WHO has also expanded the medical referral capacity through provision of 6 additional ambulances critically needed to support the entire medical referral pathway from point of stabilization to rehabilitation.  Additionally, deployment of 5 new mobile medical clinics (MMC) to west Mosul aims to immunize unvaccinated children and provide essential health services at all major mustering and reception sites and IDP camps.

“Urgent access to front line trauma care complemented with lifesaving health services, emergency immunization campaigns and vigilance against the risk of communicable outbreaks are our top priorities at this point considering the precarious conditions fleeing populations have to survive in under soaring temperatures” said Altaf Musani WHO Representative in Iraq. 

Of the 180 000 persons expected to be in the old city, approximately 50 000 are women of reproductive age, who have had no access to any reproductive health  services and are vulnerable to different risks including complicated deliveries. UNFPA is providing emergency reproductive health services to these women through 5 maternity hospitals, 14 mobile and static delivery rooms and 35 mobile and static reproductive health clinics. UNFPA-supported services have been established in IDP camps as well as host communities in East and West Mosul, and are well positioned to serve women and girls in the old city of Mosul.

"UNFPA is well positioned to continue providing life-saving reproductive health services on the front-lines and strengthening referral pathways. We are grateful to the donors who help make this happen, namely Australia, Canada, ECHO, Japan, OFDA, CERF and the Humanitarian Pooled Funding," said Ramanathan Balakrishnan, UNFPA Representative in Iraq

WHO and other health cluster partners are appealing for urgent support to bridge the current funding gap of 85% to address these emergency health challenges in the context of Mosul operation and to assist over 6 million people in need of health services, nationwide.

 

http://www.basnews.com/index.php/en/news/iraq/354501

[MyLadiesDaddy]

11 hours ago, ChuckFinley said:

Ok, this is what I met in my earlier post about a "Strong Point". This will be the end or right there when this goes down.  

If the news article is true then we should all ask ourselves, "how come this isn't over now"?

Because we have antitank bombs and antipersonnel bombs that could wipe them completely out and only do surface damage to the Satanic Mosque. Soooooo, "WHAT DA PROBLEM IS"?  

[Butifldrm]

"Collector succession" .. great battle Daesh in Mosul

 

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Twilight News residents / said that Daesh fighters blocked the surrounding streets, the large-Nouri Mosque in Mosul, apparently in preparation for the final showdown in the battle for the last big stronghold in Iraq.

And watched residents of dozens of fighters taking their positions in the last forty-eight hours around the ancient mosque, which declared him to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the militant group, the state of "succession" in July, 2014.

The fluttering banner of the black Islamic state over the mosque since the militants controlled Mosul and seized swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria in the summer of 2014.

Iraqi government forces and regained the support of the United States east of Mosul in January and began a new campaign on Saturday to restore the enclave remaining in the grip of militants in western Mosul, and consists of the old city area where the mosque is located, and three areas adjacent to him in addition to the West Bank of the Tigris River.

The fall of the city will represent virtually the end of the half reality in Iraq, which is called the Caliphate State, while Kurdish forces in Syria, backed by air strikes against US fighters besieging Daesh in the city of Raqqa stronghold of the organization there.

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The United Nations said on Sunday that up to 200 thousand people are still living in poor conditions behind Daesh lines in Mosul, in light of dwindling food, water and medical supplies in addition to the difficulty of access to hospitals.

And it became the Great Mosque of Al-Nouri symbolic hub of the campaign as Iraqi leaders say in private conversations they hope to restore it during the month of Ramadan.

Said Hisham al-Hashemi, an adviser to several governments in the Middle East, including the Iraqi government and provides advice in the affairs of the organization Daesh that its fighters know that the mosque is the most important goal and prepare for a major battle there.

But experts said the battle in the mosque or its proximity to the famous building will risk Inclined and its minaret.

The minaret is not perpendicular to the building primarily over moist soil and is exposed to high risk because they had not been renewed since 1970 and described the minaret Balhdaba.

It entered Mosul campaign eight months and took time much longer than expected because Daesh fighting among civilians and using them as human shields.

The resident said that in the past few days, militants have ordered dozens of families to leave Zndjeli area to move to the old city so as not to flee towards the Iraqi forces that are trying to advance from the east side.

Government forces dropped leaflets on the neighborhoods where families are advised to flee, but the intensity of the fighting prevented residents fled.

Prey for militants to provide troops suicide attacks with car bombs and motorbikes along with snipers, mines and mortars.

Already provided about 700 thousand people, equivalent to one-third of the city's population before the war and sought to stay with friends and relatives or in camps.

 

Reuters

 

http://www.shafaaq.com/ar/Ar_NewsReader/8e64f7b2-1492-4a23-b569-116cab287a2a

 

[tigergorzow]

IS Grand Mufti Struck by Coalition's Air Force in Raqqa

 

Basnews English

01/06/2017 - 17:05

Middle East

 

 

Turki al-Binali, IS senior leader

 

 

ERBIL — The Islamic State (IS) Grand Mufti Turki al-Binali, one of the senior IS leaders, was killed in an air strike of the International Coalition in the Syrian city of Raqqa in the past 48 hours, according to reports released on Thursday.

IS extremist group confirmed his death and began distributing his biography and obituary. Many considered Binali a natural successor of the IS leader Abu Bakir al-Baghdadi.

However, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a report that "it is not yet known" whether the targeted IS member is Binali or another leader of the jihadist group since the body was transferred to a hospital in Raqqa, the IS stronghold in Syria.

Binali, 34, was originally from Bahrain and he moved to Libya in 2013 where he pledged alliance to IS and he also invited people to join the jihadist group. Later, he moved to Raqqa, the IS de facto capital in northern Syria where he was appointed as the IS Grand Mufti.

IS recently lost another significant member named Rayyan Mashaal who was the founder of the IS news agency Amaq. He was killed in a coalition air raid in the eastern city of Mayadin in Syria.

 

http://www.basnews.com/index.php/en/news/middle-east/354678

[tigergorzow]

Iraqi Forces Resume Push to Retake Last IS Strongholds in Mosul

 

Basnews English

01/06/2017 - 15:41

Iraq

 

 

 

MOSUL — A source from the Iraqi federal police said on Thursday that security forces were advancing towards the center of Zanjili district with air support, killing more than 10 Islamic State (IS) militants, including suicide bombers.

Col. Khudair Saleh, an officer from federal police, told BasNews that "the federal police forces resumed their advance towards the center of Zanjili amid severe clashes with IS militants.

The operation has thus far resulted in the deaths of more than seven IS gunmen, noting that progress is being made by the air support of the International Coalition’s air force.

The Iraqi forces are advancing rapidly with immense care of the lives of civilians trapped in the area, said Colonel Saleh.

the forces have simultaneously begun an incursion into Shifa neighbourhood, aiming to reach the center of the neighbourhood towards Sheikh Fathi area in west Mosul.

 

http://www.basnews.com/index.php/en/news/iraq/354659

[tigergorzow]

Three Mass Graves Found in Sinjar's Compound

 

Basnews English

01/06/2017 - 17:17

Kurdistan

 

 

 

ERBIL— In Sibashekhdr Compound of Sinjar (Nineveh province) three mass graves were discovered on Thursday, stated the administrator for Gir Uzer district.

Khidir Rasho told BasNews they cannot tell the graves contain how many bodies but they contain the Yezidi victims killed by Islamic State (IS) fighters.

The graves are yet to be unearthed, Rasho said, urging the related parties to protect the graves until a special committee exhumes the remains and collects evidence for the massacre of Yezidis.

According to the official still 3,400 Yezidi individuals are missing and expected to locate many of them in more mass graves in the area.

The official was concerned that the Shi'ite Hashd al-Shaabi forces who entered Sinjar areas without coordination with Kurdish parties may damage the graves.

Kurdish Yezidi minority who has extensively populated Sinjar and its vicinity in Nineveh province witnessed a wide campaign of annihilation at the hands of IS when their areas were occupied by the Islamic jihadists in August 2014.

Hundreds were killed right away for their faith and thousands were abducted. Their women and girls were also taken as sex-salves.

Tens of mass graves have so far been discovered in Sinjar.

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is trying to document as many pieces of evidence as possible to officially introduce the annihilation campaign as genocide against the Kurdish religious minority.

  

http://www.basnews.com/index.php/en/news/kurdistan/354679

[tigergorzow]

Exclusive: Parts freed so far in Mosul explained on map

June 01 2017 09:25 PM

Iraqi forces

 

An updated version of Mosul's map showing the latest developments in the battle to oust ISIS from occupied districts in the city's right bank has been obtained by The Baghdad Post on Thursday. 

On the map, the spots marked in green represent the previously ISIS-held areas that have been liberated.  

As the map shows, the white spots represent the parts of the war-torn city where ISIS is still controlling.
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.

 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/11446/Exclusive-Parts-freed-so-far-in-Mosul-explained-on-map

[tigergorzow]

ISIS turns sulfur spring in Mosul into mass execution platform

June 01 2017 05:07 PM

sulfur spring

 

ISIS terrorist group has increased the pace of executions against civilians in the last ISIS-hold pocket of the city, sources exclusively told The Baghdad Post.

The terrorists turned the sulfur spring, which was used for curing purposes, into an execution platform, sources added.

Last May witnessed large executions of civilians over charges of cooperating with the security forces, refusing to comply with ISIS orders or attempting to escape from  ISIS-holding areas.

Eyewitness who fled ongoing fighting in Abu Tammam al-Zanjili in Mosul's right bank, told The Baghdad Post that his last contact with his relatives in the Old City was on May 23. 

Other civilians who fled the city to al-Thawra district told security forces that ISIS turned the sulfur spring into a blood spring.  Civilians are taken to the spring at night then the terrorists shoot them in public. They used suppressors before shooting the victims.   

Earlier in May, relief sources reported that ISIS execute about nine families daily. They shoot  mothers in front of their children then throw their bodies into the sulfur spring. The bodies then decompose because of the hot water and being exposed to the sunlight. 

 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/11430/ISIS-turns-sulfur-spring-in-Mosul-into-mass-execution-platform

[tigergorzow]

Iraq Federal Police push deep in Zanjili, Shefaa in Mosul right bank

June 01 2017 05:42 PM

Federal Police forces

 

 

Iraqi Federal Police Forces (FPF) have resumed operations in the right bank of Mosul as they pushed deep into al-Zanjili and al-Shefaa neighborhoods, FPF commander Gen. Raed Shakir Jawdat said Thursday.
 

In a press statement, Jawdat said, "Federal Police forces surrounded ISIS' posts at al-Zanjili neighborhood after seizing their communication devices and shelled them with shoulder mounted rockets".
 

Police forces also killed 12 ISIS terrorists including Arab nationals.
 

He added that the forces had advanced 600 meters in the right bank of Mosul and currently approaching Bab Sinjar neighborhood which is considered the northern entrance to the Old City of Mosul district.

 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/11433/Iraq-Federal-Police-push-deep-in-Zanjili-Shefaa-in-Mosul-right-bank

[tigergorzow]

Pictured: Homes being plundered in Mosul's liberated areas

June 01 2017 02:32 PM

robberies

 

Saboteurs are rampaging across streets and pushing small carts to move the objects they have stolen from abandoned homes in Mosul liberated areas, photos exclusively obtained by The Baghdad Post showed.


Al-Rifai district is witnessing daily robberies in broad daylight, eyewitnesses said, noting that the area has severe lack of security presence.




On February 19, US-led coalition with the aid of Iraqi army launched a wide-scale operation to liberate Mosul right bank from ISIS terrorists.



Mosul fell to ISIS in 2014.

At least 98 percent of the city was recaptured with a few number of ISIS terrorists desperately fight to maintain grounds in the Old City.
 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/11423/Pictured-Homes-being-plundered-in-Mosul-s-liberated-areas

[tigergorzow]

ISIS executes 14 civilians in Mosul's right bank

June 01 2017 06:09 PM

Tigris river, Mosul

 

 

ISIS terrorists have executed 14 civilians who were trying to flee Mosul'd right bank amid ongoing fierce battles to the left bank of Mosul via the Tigris river, a local source told The Baghdad Post on Thursday.
 

The source asserted the executed civilians were trying to swim across the river, but ISIS terrorists spotted them and shot them on site.
 

This comes as US-backed Iraqi forces supported by Iranian-backed sectarian IMIS Shiite militias are pushing deep into the last ISIS pockets in the right bank of Mosul, their last major stronghold in Iraq.

 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/11435/ISIS-executes-14-civilians-in-Mosul-s-right-bank

[tigergorzow]

Elite soldiers can recapture Mosul's Old City in 3 hours - strategist

June 01 2017 03:35 PM

Displaced Iraqis

 

A military strategist told The Baghdad Post on Thursday that if elite soldiers, trained to fight in street war, were deployed, they will enter the Old City and recapture it within three hours.

Heavy shelling by Iranian Militias in Iraq and Syria (IMIS) artillery has killed many innocent civilians, local sources told the Baghdad Post.

The sources said that the bombing is indiscriminate and heavy because the districts have already fallen and ISIS full defeat is only a matter of time. 

Makeshift shelters in Hawi al-Kanisa neighborhood in northwestern Mosul have received massive waves of displaced Iraqis, escaping the battles in al-Shifaa neighborhood and other districts in the Old city. 

These districts are witnessing military confrontation between the security forces and ISIS terrorists. 

As a result, civilians face many challenges. For example, they face the hardship of escaping these districts, reaching safe corridors under the control of the security forces, and moving to displacement centers.
    
Security forces, backed by International Coalition air raids and logistic support of the US army, have retaken eastern Mosul and half of its western part after six months of battles. These forces are focusing now on controlling the Old City.   

It is estimated that there are a few of ISIS terrorists left in the second largest city of Iraq. It is expected that they will desperately defend the last pocket of the city that has been once their main stronghold in Iraq. 

 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/11429/Elite-soldiers-can-recapture-Mosul-s-Old-City-in-3-hours-strategist

[tigergorzow]

Mortar shell kills top ISIS leader in Diyala

June 01 2017 02:59 PM

ISIS leader killed

 

A Mortar shell kill ISIS to leader in Diyala governorate, a security source told the Baghdad Post on Thursday.

Security forces shelled Hwad al-Mayeta area on the borderline between Salahuudin and Diyala provinces after receiving intelligence information which revealed ISIS whereabouts, the source, who asked not to be named, added.

The terror group's leader Abu Abdullah who is responsible for al-Mayeta district was reportedly killed and some of his assistants were injured.

 

This comes as the Iraqi forces are pushing on the terror group of ISIS in the right bank of Mosul with the aid of the US-led coalition.

 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/11424/Mortar-shell-kills-top-ISIS-leader-in-Diyala

[tigergorzow]

Iraqi police kill dozens of ISIS terrorists fleeing Mosul

June 01 2017 01:58 PM

Raed Shaker Jawdat

 

Dozens of ISIS terrorists were killed while attempting to flee the Old city in Mosul, Head of Iraqi Federal Police, Raed Shaker Jawdat said on Wednesday.

Iraqi forces uses drones and artillery to shell the terrorists in al-Zanjili district, causing huge losses in equipment and personnel, Jawdat added.

 

This comes as the Iraqi forces are pushing on the terror group of ISIS in the right bank of Mosul with the aid of the US-led coalition.

 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/11420/Iraqi-police-kill-dozens-of-ISIS-terrorists-fleeing-Mosul

[wealthhound]

Nail all the bast****!!

WH

[boosterbglee]

Thanks Tiger! 

 

I am hoping this is complete by the time I get back from vacation in 10 days!  It is dis-heartening to hear what the poor civilians have to deal with!  Sad.

[tigergorzow]

Just now, boosterbglee said:

Thanks Tiger! 

 

I am hoping this is complete by the time I get back from vacation in 10 days!  It is dis-heartening to hear what the poor civilians have to deal with!  Sad.

boosterbglee,  Please enjoy your vacation and Yes I do believe this will be over hopefully in the next few days or so because ISIS is killing so many civilians as this battle to retake Mosul drags on.......The Iraqi & Coalition Forces need to end this before they kill more innocent people waiting to be liberated from these "Cockroaches".   Keep the advance moving until they are all KILLED.

 

GO Liberation Of Mosul -  Kill them all ASAP!!

[fnbplanet]

Elite soldiers can recapture Mosul's Old City in 3 hours - strategist

When the fight for Mosul is over, and U.S. forces resume training Iraqi army personnel, may I suggest that we also train their "Military Strategists", so that they may more accurately estimate their military's progress?  Three hours, really?

[ChuckFinley]

9 minutes ago, fnbplanet said:

Elite soldiers can recapture Mosul's Old City in 3 hours - strategist

When the fight for Mosul is over, and U.S. forces resume training Iraqi army personnel, may I suggest that we also train their "Military Strategists", so that they may more accurately estimate their military's progress?  Three hours, really?

Add Enemy Strength.  These guys must be multiplying. At one point we were under 200. We killed that over the last 4 days.