Alwaght- Iraqi forces advanced further into northern Mosul as the large-scale operation to liberate the city from ISIS has entered its 20th day.
The Iraqi Army has entered the northern residential areas of the city as the offensive in the south has been going on for some days.
"Army forces have stormed al-Sada district, the first residential neighborhood in northern Mosul,” army officer Ahmed al-Jabouri of the Nineveh Operations Command told Turkish Anadolu news agency.
“Our forces are engaged in street battles with ISIS fighters” in the district, he said.
The units of Iraqi army continued with their major operation to liberate the northern city of Mosul from ISIS and made terrorists withdraw from eastern parts of the city.
Previously Iraqi forces had reached Mosul residential areas in the south and have managed to liberate six neighborhoods in the city.
Iraqi counter-terrorism forces recaptured the districts of Al-Malayin, Al-Samah, Al-Khazra, Kirkukli, Al-Quds and Al-Karama, Abdulamir Rashid Yarullah on Friday.
The forces managed to raise Iraqi national flags over government buildings in recaptured areas.
Late Thursday, Iraq’s Defense Ministry announced that, over the course of the last four days, 125 ISIS terrorists have been killed and 24 villages and areas in Nineveh province -- of which Mosul is the regional capital -- had been wrested from the terrorist group.
On October 17, the Iraqi army backed by Popular Mobilization Forces and Peshmerga forces launched a wide-ranging operation aimed at retaking ISIS last bastion in Iraq, Mosul fell to the terrorist group in mid-2014
