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| Most Daesh commanders in Mosul killed in battles: Iraqi general |
| 2017-01-20 |
| [Iran Press TV] A senior Iraqi general says most ISIS commanders in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... have been killed in battles with armed forces over the past three months. "The majority of (ISIS) commanders have been killed in the eastern side," Lieutenant-General Abdul Ghani al-Assadi from the elite Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) told news hounds on Thursday, while touring the newly retaken areas in the northern Iraqi city. Since October 2016, the Iraqi army, backed by volunteer forces, has been pushing to drive ISIS faceless myrmidons out of their last urban stronghold in the Arab state. "God willing, there will be an announcement in the next few days that all the eastern bank is under control," Assadi added. Latest reports from Mosul on Thursday said government troops had liberated Mosul’s Fazeliyeh neighborhood, as well as Tel Kef, a small town just to the north of the city. The army is still battling ISIS Death Eaters in al-Arabi, the last district which remains under their control in eastern Mosul, according to the reports. Assadi had announced on Wednesday that ISIS had been driven out of almost all of Mosul’s eastern half, and that the area had been brought under CTS control. He said the next stage of the operation is to liberate the western side of Mosul. "There will be a meeting in the next few days attended by all the commanders concerned with liberation operations," added the senior military officials. A total of 137,880 people have been displaced from Mosul and neighboring areas ever since the start of the operations, according to figures released by the International Organization for Migration on January 9. |
| Posted by:Fred |