Live Update 
From the Liveblog of
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
From the Liveblog of
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Iraqi forces retake villages in push on Mosul from south
Iraqi forces say they are advancing on the southern approach to the Islamic State-held city of Mosul, a front where they have been making slower progress than to the east.
The Commandeer of the Mosul Operation, Lt. Gen. Abdul-Amir Raheed Yar Allah, says in a statement that Federal Police Forces have retaken four villages near Hamam al-Alil area.
Iraqi army soldiers warm themselves next to a fire near the Qayara air base, south of Mosul, on Nov. 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
A spokesman for the Joint Military Command, Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool, confirms that the operation happened this morning.
Iraqi special forces are also going house-to-house in Mosul’s easternmost neighborhood of Gogjali, where sappers are searching roads for explosives and booby traps Islamic State militants could have left behind before they were driven out yesterday.
— AP
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