Alwaght- The ISIS terrorist group has burned down the Hospital and university buildings in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
Members of the ISIS group set a maternity hospital and some buildings of the University of Mosul ablaze, before withdrawing from them, BasNews reported on Sunday.
Commander of Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Forces, Abdel Wahab al-Saedi, said, “The ISIS group burned al-Khansa Maternity Hospital, as well as the buildings of faculties of Dentistry, Education, Arts and Economy in the University of Mosul, before withdrawing from them, due to the significant development achieved by security forces in the area.”
So far, Iraqi forces have retaken around 70 percent of eastern Mosul from the terrorist group. However, the western half of the city remains under ISIS terrorists' control.
Iraqi army along with Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) and Kurdish Peshmerga launched an operation last December to liberate Mosul from ISIS.
However, the advance in Mosul has been slowed down due to the presence of hundreds of thousands of civilians, who are being prevented by the terrorists from leaving the city.
