Iraqi army advance towards Nuri Mosque west of Mosul

Iraqi forces moved towards the Nuri al-Kabeer Mosque in the Old City on the right side of Mosul.

This comes at a time when the Joint Operations Command issued two important instructions to the remaining civilians in the liberated neighborhoods on the right side of the city of Mosul and how to preserve their lives and not to use them as human shields from extremist elements.

The joint operations emphasized the need for the besieged population to commit to "staying at home, away from IS's militants, by closing the doors well and moving away from the windows to suggest that no one is at home, and to stay in one house for more than one family.

The forces called to descend into the basements of those who own them and to the ground floors at the start of the clashes, and to leave it and infiltrate outside immediately during the clashes.

We Are Coming, Nineveh Operations Command announced, on Thursday, liberating the village of Halila Village, in western Mosul. Commander of Operations, Lieutenant General Abdel Amir Yarallah, said in a press statement that troops of the army’s 9th armored brigade liberated Halila Village, in western Mosul.

Earlier today, Iraqi Joint Operations Command said its forces had recaptured 60% of the western flank of Mosul from Islamic State militants as operations approach a third month to retake that region.

Yarallah said that the forces of the 9th Armored Division liberated the villages of Shuitah and Tel Asfour north of Tallul Athenha and the village of Saboon and raised the Iraqi flag, indicating that these forces imposed its control on the southern bank of the Tigris River.

The commander of the federal police, Raed Shaker Jawdat, said that a regiment of the Federal Police supported by the armored vehicle division penetrated the old city of the Bab al-Jadid axis towards Al-Nuri Mosque, pointing out that his forces managed to kill 13 members of IS , After the Iraqi air force directed qualitative strikes on sites and elements on the right coast of the city of Mosul.

The Iraqi Army Air Force, after receiving accurate intelligence, destroyed an arms store and killed 18 extremists in the village of Ahliya, in the Badush district, and destroyed a weapons and ammunition cache in the village of al-Tayr, in the area of ​​Al-Baaj.

The Interior Ministry revealed on Thursday the arrest of three elements belonging to IS organization, who were hidden among the displaced in the province of Kirkuk, pointing out that they were referred to the judiciary to complete the investigative procedures. while the director of police in Kirkuk, Sarhad Kadir, announced the arrest of two elements of IS participated in the slaughter of elements of the Peshmerga forces in the province of Hawija, southwest of the province.

Brigadier Qader said that following the availability of the necessary information, a police force arrested a member of the Daqqq district in the south of Kirkuk, and another in cooperation with the emergency police inside the center of the province, adding that these elements participated in all battles against the Peshmerga forces and Iraqi forces In the open area within the city of Tikrit.

A security source in the province of Diyala said, on Thursday, that a security force of rapid response entered the area of ​​Abu Sidon, the district of Muqdadiya (northeast of Diyala) to end the clashes between the citizens and extremists and the arrest of extremists and outlaws in the area.

Source: Timesofoman