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Iraqi troops capture three more neighborhoods from ISIS in eastern Mosul

Over a month after a major operation was launched against Islamic State militants, the Iraqi security forces on Thursday captured three more neighbourhoods from the terror group in eastern Mosul.

India TV News Desk India TV News Desk Baghdad Published on: November 24, 2016 18:09 IST
Scores of Iraqi male residents rounded up by the Iraqi army
Scores of Iraqi male residents rounded up by the Iraqi army in Mosul.

Over a month after a major operation was launched against Islamic State militants, the Iraqi security forces on Thursday captured three more neighbourhoods from the terror group in eastern Mosul. 

Iraqi troops claimed that they drove ISIS militants from three more neighbourhoods of Mosul, leading to a street-to-street fight that is now in its sixth week.

Brig. Gen. Haider Fadhil of the special forces said that his men have retaken the neighborhoods of Amn, Qahira and Green Apartments and were expanding their foothold in the densely populated district of Zohour.

The neighborhoods are all in the eastern sector of Mosul, east of the Tigris River, where most of the fighting has taken place since the government's campaign to liberate the city began Oct. 17.

Government troops are backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes against IS positions in the city.

Mosul, captured by IS in 2014, is the last major urban center still held by the Sunni extremist group in Iraq.

Late Wednesday, a spokesman for one of the larger state-sanctioned Shiite militias fighting on the ground near Mosul said the militiamen have seized a road to the northwest of Mosul linking the city to Raqqa, the de facto capital of the IS group's self-styled caliphate in neighboring Syria. The militias have been converging on Tal Afar, an IS-held town west of Mosul that had a Shiite majority before falling to the extremists in 2014.

"We have cut off Tal Afar from Mosul and we cut off Mosul from Syria," Jaafar al-Husseini, a spokesman for the Hezbollah Brigades, told the AP.

Also Wednesday, a pre-dawn airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition struck a bridge across the Tigris River, which divides the city in two, leaving only one bridge for cars functioning in the city and disrupting IS supply lines. It was the second bridge to be struck this week, and two other bridges were destroyed by airstrikes last month.

With AP Inputs 

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