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| Iraq |
| Iraqi forces search for suicide car bombs, cut supply routes to Mosul |
| 2016-11-22 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraqi troops fighting ISIS gunnies in the eastern outskirts of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... regrouped on Monday in neighborhoods they have recently retaken from the myrmidon group and conducted house-to-house searches looking for vehicles primed for use in suicide kabooms, according to a top Iraqi commander. Maj. Gen. Sami al-Aridi of the Iraqi military’s special forces told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named his men also foiled two attempted suicide boom-mobileings early Monday, firing from a US-made tank on the approaching vehicles, which went kaboom!before reaching their intended targets. He said a civilian woman was maimed in the blasts. Suicide boom-mobileings and sniper fire underline the difficulty of the campaign to retake Mosul - even in eastern parts where Iraq’s most combat-seasoned troops are operating. Cutting supply route Iraqi Shiite militias were massing troops on Monday to cut remaining supply routes to Mosul, ISIS’ last major stronghold in Iraq, closing in on the road that links the Syrian and Iraqi parts of its self-declared "Caliphate". Six weeks into the US-backed offensive on Mosul, ISIS is fighting in the area of Tal Afar, 60 km (40 miles) to the west, against a coalition of Iranian-backed groups known as Popular Mobilization. Cutting the western road to Tal Afar would seal off Mosul as the city is already surrounded to the north, south and east by Iraqi government and Kurdish Peshmerga forces. Iraqi forces make further gains north and south of Mosul [RUDAW.NET] Iraqi forces on Monday made further advances into northern and southern djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , while the state-backed Shiite paramilitary was able to "fully clear up" Tal Afar airport, the Iraqi War Media Office said in a round-up on the day’s achievements. On the al-Zab Front, the 9th armored division and the Nineveh Operations Command were able to liberate the al-Salamiyah area, al-Salamiyah water project, the villages of al-Hamirah and the al-Tawatinat al-Jadida on the Kirkuk-Mosul road. They were also able to open the road between Hamdaniyah towards the Mosul-Kirkuk road and freed the road between Kubar-Hamdaniyah intersection. On the northern front, the 16th division was able to liberate the villages of al-Salam, Orta Kharab and Abbasiyah, north of Mosul’s al-Qahirah neighborhood on the left bank of the Tigris River. On the western front, the state-backed Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi paramilitaries fully cleared up Tal Afar airport and cut the road between the airport and Tal Afar district. On the eastern front, the Iraqi counterterrorism forces continued to clear the buildings and roads currently under their control in several neighborhoods. PMU will block ISIS-held Tal Afar as part of its fourth phase of combat operations [ALMASDARNEWS] The Popular Mobilization Units Iraqi Hezbollah... will begin a blockade on ISIS-held Tal Afar, to djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... 's west, as part of its fourth phase to liberate the city, the militias spokesperson, Abdu Ghani al-Assadi, told IBN news. "As the Tal Afar airport was completely purged, as well as a number of villages located between the precinct and the airport, security forces are preparing for the fourth phase of western Mosul liberation," he stated. "The troops are 4500 meters away from the administrative borders of northern Tal Afar," Assadi said, adding that his militia’s role would be to "consummate a blockade on Tal Afar to isolate it from external supply routes preparing for its invasion by the forces assigned for that mission." "The liberation of Tal Afar will be carried out by the army, federal police and local mobilization units consisted of the town’s people," Assadi said. The liberation of Tal Afar is essential to blocking any ISIS escape from Mosul to Syria. Mass grave containing over 200 bodies found near Mosul [ALMASDARNEWS] Sky Press have reported that a mass grave containing at least 200 bodies executed by ISIS were discovered near djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... on Monday. " A security force noticed a group of stray dogs scavenging the ground in Hammam al-Alil. Moving to that spot, the forces ran into dead bodies pulled out by the dogs," Sky Press reported. As the Mosul liberation operations continue, more and more mass graves are being found, revealing the true extend of ISIS atrocities. It is not known at this moment who those that were executed are. ISIS photo-documentation officer killed in Mosul: ministry Baghdad – (IraqiNews.com) The photo-documentation officer at the Islamic State extremist group was killed in security operations at Mosul, the Ministry of Defense said on Monday. The militant, operating within ISIS’s Amaq News Agency, was killed in operations by the 9th armored division as part of the “We Are Coming, Nineveh” operations,” according to a statement by the ministry. “Security forces will proceed to chase other elements that appeared in snaps taken by the deceased photographer and were found on the three cameras in his possession. ISIS has been sustaining severe losses in equipment as well as in leaderships and vital cadres since Iraqi government forces and popular militias launched a major campaign mid October to liberate Mosul, the extremist group’s last foothold in Iraq. On Sunday, Anti-terrorism forces said they had killed the group’s so-called “Wali (governor) of Aden”, Marwan Hamed Saleh al-Hayali. 2427 refugees back to liberated areas in Nineveh: ministry Baghdad – (Iraqinews.com) More than 2400 refugees escaping battles between security forces and Islamic State militants have returned to their liberated residences in Nineveh, the Ministry of Migration and Displacement said on Monday. Ministry official Diaa Sallal said in a statement that 2427 people left the Jadaa camps in Qayyara, Mosul, and Debka, Erbil, and returned home after obtaining security clearances. The ministry had said earlier this month that the number of refugees escaping violence in Nineveh’s Mosul, the stage of decisive battles between Iraqi security and ISIS, surpassed 56000. Observers say the numbers continue to soar due to the ongoing battles. Security officials and observers have blamed occasional slowdowns in the operations to liberate Mosul to the existence of civilians at the city’s centre and the fear of using them by ISIS as human shields. Recent reports have also confirmed that ISIS began to bombard the recaptured areas, posing a danger to civilians there. On Sunday, The UK government’s Middle East and North Africa spokesperson, Edwin Samuel, said in a statement that there are currently international efforts to set up new refugee camps in Iraq to admit 450.000 refugees. |
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