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By Ali Jawad and Mohamed Walid BAGHDAD (AA): Iraqi forces began to advance on the center of the northwestern city of Tal Afar on Tuesday as part of a major offensive to recapture the predominantly Turkmen city from Daesh terrorist group, according to Iraqi security officers. “Special forces, backed by the Hashd Shaabi fighters, […]

22nd Jun 2017

Iraq: Daesh destroys historic mosque in Mosul

By Haydar Hadi MOSUL, Iraq (AA): Daesh has blown up the iconic Grand al-Nuri Mosque and its famous leaning minaret, in Mosul, the Iraqi army said Wednesday. The terror group destroyed the building “and its minarets while our forces were 50 meters [164 feet] away”, Lt. Gen. Abdulemir Yarullah of Operations Command in Mosul […]

23rd Apr 2017

Iraq: 90 civilians killed in Mosul fight

By Ahmed Qasim and Ibrahim Salih NINEVEH, Iraq (AA): At least 90 civilians were reportedly killed in deadly clashes between Iraqi forces and Daesh terrorists in western Mosul. An Iraqi Rapid Response officer said the victims had been caught in the fight between the terrorists and Iraqi forces trying to capture Al-Thawra district in […]

19th Apr 2017

Iraq: Daesh car-bomb attack kills 16 in W Mosul

By Ahmed Qassem NINEVEH, Iraq (AA): At least 16 people were killed in a Tuesday car-bomb attack carried out by the Daesh terrorist group in western Mosul, according to an Iraqi military source. Army Captain Khader al-Asadi told Anadolu Agency that a Daesh suicide bomber had attacked anti-terrorism units stationed in western Mosul’s Al-Thawra […]

5th Mar 2017

Iraq: 8,000 Iraqi civilians evacuated from western Mosul

By Ali Jawad BAGHDAD (AA): Iraqi forces have evacuated around 8,000 civilians from western Mosul in the past 24 hours amid an ongoing offensive to drive Daesh terrorists from the area, according to a local military officer. “The civilians were transferred from districts where forces are engaged in fighting against Daesh,” Army Captain Jabbar […]

20th Jan 2017

Iraq: Army announces fresh gains in Daesh-held Mosul

By Ibrahim Saleh, Serhad Shakir and Mohamed Walid BAGHDAD/NINEVEH, Iraq (AA): Iraqi army forces on Thursday captured a military facility and a presidential palace in Iraq’s northern Daesh-held city of Mosul, Iraqi army sources told Anadolu Agency. “Forces from the army’s 15th Division have liberated the Jaber Ibn Hayyan [military] facility,” Capt. Tariq Jabir […]

4th Jan 2017

Iraqi forces capture strategic districts of Mosul

By Ahmed Qassem and Ibrahim Saleh NINEVEH,(AA): Iraqi forces on Tuesday captured a major district of Daesh-held Mosul amid an ongoing army offensive aimed at ousting the terrorist group from the northern city. “Iraqi forces have taken Mosul’s southeastern Al-Hay al-Senai district following fierce clashes with Daesh militants,” Khaled al-Saadouni, an officer in Iraq’s […]

31st Oct 2016

Iraqi army takes 2 more villages from Daesh

By Ahmed Qasim and Ibrahim Salih NINEVEH, Iraq (AA): Iraqi forces have captured two more villages near the northern city of Mosul from Daesh terrorists, according to an Iraqi army officer. Ahmed al-Shemari, a captain in the Iraqi army’s Nineveh Operations Command, said army forces seized control of the villages of al-Hokool and Ali […]

25th Oct 2016

Iraqi forces capture strategic town near Mosul

By Jamal Badrani NINEVEH, (AA): The Iraqi army Monday recaptured from Daesh the Christian town of Qaraqosh near Mosul, according to an army officer. “The Iraqi joint forces have carried out combing operations in the town, which was totally evacuated of its Christian majority residents in 2014,” Mohammed al-Jubouri said. Qaraqosh is located about […]

1st Sep 2016

Iraq: Shia Muslim militia hands over parts of Tikrit to Iraqi army

By Ali Jawad BAGHDAD (AA): Saraya al-Salam, a Shia Muslim militia, handed over several parts of Iraq’s northwestern city of Tikrit to the army on Thursday roughly one year after liberating the areas from the Daesh terrorist group. “Saraya al-Salam has officially handed over security responsibility to the Iraqi army’s Baghdad Operations Command in […]

18th Jun 2016

Iraqi forces retake Fallujah from Daesh terrorists

By Haydar Hadi BAGHDAD (AA): Iraqi forces have retaken the western city of Fallujah from Daesh, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said late Friday. “Fallujah is back home,” Abadi said in a televised speech. “Our goal is to protect the holy things of the people of Fallujah and to ensure the security of the […]

5th Apr 2016

Iraq: Army retakes village south of Mosul from Daesh

By Idris Okodugo, Khidr Khalat and Mustafa Saadi MOSUL,(AA): Iraqi forces on Monday recaptured a village near the Mahmour district — located south of Mosul in Iraq’s northern Nineveh province — from the Daesh terrorist group, according to army spokesmen. The village’s capture comes within the context of ongoing army operations aimed at retaking […]

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