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Tuesday, May 9, 2017
From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Iraqi forces advance in west Mosul
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIraqi forces are making swift progress in west Mosul, officers say, retaking several neighborhoods on their way to a final showdown with jihadists in the Old City.
With Iraq’s biggest military operation in years set to enter its eighth month in a week, the Islamic State group is only holding on to a handful of neighborhoods in west Mosul.
Forces from the elite Counter-Terrorism Service “liberated the Northern Industrial Area on the western side,” says the Joint Operations Command coordinating the war against IS in Iraq.
The JOC says the forces “raised the Iraqi flag after inflicting losses to the enemy.”
— AFP
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