Alwaght- National Iraqi army made new achievements in its operation to take back the northern city of Mosul, last ISIS stronghold in the Arab country.
On Tuesday, national forces managed to kill the commander of ISIS terrorists in the city while making progress in their attacks to take control of the city's main bridge.
ISIS snipers were slowing the advance of Interior Ministry Rapid Response units on the Iron Bridge linking western and eastern Mosul but the elite forces were still inching forward, Iraqi officers said.
Government forces also pushed into areas of western Mosul, ISIS's last redoubt in the city that has been the de facto capital of their terrorist group.
Federal police killed the military commander of the Old City, Abu Abdul Rahman al-Ansary, during operations to clear Bab al-Tob district, a federal police officer said. With many ISIS leaders having already retreated from Mosul, Ansary's death comes as blow to the terrorists as they defend their shrinking area of control street-by-street and house-by-house.
Capturing the Iron Bridge would mean Iraqi forces hold three of the five bridges in Mosul that span the Tigris, all of which have been damaged by the terrorists and US-led air strikes. The southernmost two have already been retaken.
