Iraq announces victory over islamic state in mosul, Iraq
Iraq announces victory over islamic state in mosul, Iraq
An Iraqi government official in Baghdad said Monday that troops and tanks from an Islamic government forces were advancing toward Mosul to retake it from an ISIL-held city.
An official from the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service said the offensive against the Islamic State’s Iraqi stronghold of카지노 사이트 Mosul began on Monday as fighting had started in early June at a base east of the city, about 10 miles (16 km) north of Mosul, according to the Associated Press.
That base, 예스카지노captured by militants in August, was the first to be set on fire and then destroyed since the Iraqi army recaptured it last fall in an operation dubbed “Operation Inherent Resolve,” which has since been referred to by U.S. officials as the Mosul campaign.
More than two months after the city was declared cleared of IS fighters, IS fighters have yet to seize the city, which fell into the hands of local tribes over the summer.
The militants are advancing in a “wide-scale” battle plan to capture Mosul, U.S. military officials have said, while Iraqi forces are continuing to defend the capital.
A military spokesman in Baghdad said U.S. troops had been deployed to the area of the Mos카지노 사이트ul operation after Iraqi military special forces began to engage with Islamic militants. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with army rules, said a large number of troops were preparing to enter Mosul along with helicopters, tanks and fighters from the Iraqi air force.
“They have made progress, with a few ISIL checkpoints and several smaller pockets of resistance,” he said, citing residents of the city who have claimed to have seen the troops.
The Iraqi defense ministry has denied the advance by the IS troops and said it has not captured any territory.