| Time : | 4/11/2017 8:50:55 PM | News Code : | 42678 |
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IRAQI CTS FORCES RETAKE TWO MORE NEIGHBORHOODS IN WESTERN MOSUL Shabestan news agency:Iraqi government forces have liberated two more districts in the western flank of Mosul during wide-ranging joint operations with allied popular fighters to retake the country’s second largest city from Daesh Takfiri terrorists. |
The commander of Nineveh Liberation Operation, Lieutenant General Abdul Amir Yarallah, said on Monday that members of the Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) had reclaimed al-Sakak and al-Yarmuk neighborhoods, and raised the Iraqi national flag over a number of buildings there, Arabic-language al-Sumaria television network reported.
Yarallah added that Iraqi forces had inflicted heavy losses on the Daesh ranks during the operations and destroyed a large amount of their military hardware.
The developments came as the media bureau of the Popular Mobilization Units, commonly known by the Arabic word Hashd al-Sha’abi, announced in a statement that pro-government fighters had shelled ten vehicles carrying munitions for Daesh extremists in al-Hamra village west of Mosul, destroying the weapons and killing all the militants onboard.
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Shabestan news agency
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