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Tuesday, April 25, 2017
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Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Iraqi forces retake large Mosul neighborhood from IS
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIraqi forces retake full control of one the largest neighborhoods of west Mosul from the Islamic State group after a week of intense fighting, a top commander says.
“This morning, the heroes of the Counter-Terrorism Service on the western axis succeeded in fully clearing Tenek neighborhood,” Staff Lieutenant General Abdulwahab al-Saadi tells AFP in Mosul.
The elite forces have been spearheading a massive offensive launched in mid-October 2016 to retake Mosul, the country’s second city and the last major Iraqi bastion of the jihadists’ now crumbling “caliphate.”
— AFP
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