Alwaght- More than 60 percent of western side of Mosul city has been liberated from ISIS terrorist group, a commander in the Iraqi Army’s Counter-Terrorism Force said.
Abdul-Ghani al-Assad also announced that districts like Wadi Hajar, al-Sumoud, al-Maamoun, Tal al-Rayyan, al-Tayaran and Josaq were all back in control of Iraqi forces.
In addition, major government buildings such as the courthouse, central bank and police department, as well as the Turkish consulate building, all just on the outskirts of the Old City, have all come back into the control of the Iraqi government.
The capture of this complex secures the areas already captured and allows for the Iraqi forces to effectively launch new assaults against the terrorist group.
The battle for Mosul, which started on 17 October, will now enter a more complicated phase in the densely populated old city where, the Iraqi military believes, several thousand terrorists are among the remaining civilian population
Iraqi troops liberated eastern Mosul in January, but did not launch the offensive to take the western portions of the city till February.
