Alwaght- Iraqi army recaptured ISIS the venue of the iconic Grand al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul from where ISIS proclaimed its self-styled caliphate in 2014, Iraqi state TV reported on Thursday implying end of the terrorist group’s control over the country’s second largest city.
“Their fictitious state has fallen,” an Iraqi military spokesman, Brigadier General Yahya Rasool, told state TV.
Earlier, the Iraqi military announced the news as it continues to gain more advances in Mosul’s Old City.
Shortly after the announcement, the Iraqi state television reported the fall of the “mythical state,” in reference to ISIS so-called caliphate.
The TV said the recapture of the mosque means Mosul, as the terror group’s command center, has been liberated, while Iraqi forces are in the middle of a mop-up operation to cleanse the city of remaining ISIS elements.
ISIS terrorists late on June 21 blew up the Grand al-Nuri Mosque and its Hadba (Hunchback) minaret.
The Iraqi army forces have besieged the last ISIS positions in the southern areas of Old Mosul and they expect to purge the area of the terrorists by the next few days.
Iraqi government forces are nearing the end of their eight-month campaign to capture the de-facto capital of ISIS in Iraq.
