US forces carried out air landing operation near Mosul

An Iraqi military source revealed that US forces conducted an air landing operation, west of Shoura district, south of the city of Mosul, to evacuate a number of its spies inside ISIS organization. At the same time, parliamentary movements are taking place to vote on the postponement of the Kirkuk elections for the third consecutive session since the 2005 ballot, and the retention of the local government and its council, which accepted power-sharing and the scrutiny of data and records.

The source said that US forces used during the process of landing four-wheeled motorcycles, while the source did not confirm the identity of the characters who were evacuated during the landing operation. The same source said International Alliance's jets carried out an air strike about three kilometers from the landing operation targeted one of the tunnels used by the organization in Shoura area.

ISIS is trying to rearrange its ranks and appoint new leaders in the desert of western Iraq, dragging government forces into a war of attrition, as Iraqi and US intelligence agencies are trying to monitor its movements and monitor its leadership to target them. The organization, according to the same source, transferred the communication and control centers from Mosul to the city of Tal Afar, its largest stronghold in Mosul, which extends from the desert to Anbar desert, where Iraqi forces are trying to cut all the routes from Tal Afar to Qaim.

On the other hand, US-led coalition's wareplanes killed five ISIS snipers on Friday, a security source was quoted saying. An officer in the Kurdish Peshmerga forces said that the jets pounded ISIS locations in Kabiba village, west of Kirkuk, killing five snipers from the group.