Alwaght- Iraqi armed forces managed to kill 76 terrorists in the northern city of Mosul as the operation to liberate the city continues.
In a series of attacks on Misaq and Shaima’ neighborhoods in the city, 50 terrorists were killed on Tuesday, the federal police sources reported.
Counterterrorism swoops on the Sana’ah area and another location within the city also killed 13 terrorists, reported the website for Iraq’s al-Sumariah television.
Terrorists, on the other hand, killed 11 people in rocket attacks on residential buildings in the east of the city. On October 17, joint Iraqi forces launched an operation to retake Mosul, which fell to ISIS in 2014.
The advance has, however, been slowed down due to the presence of hundreds of thousands of civilians, many of whom are being prevented from leaving the city by the terrorists.
Also on Tuesday, Abdul-Amir Rashid Yar-Allah, the commander of the military operations in the Nineveh Province, of which Mosul is the capital, said the forces had managed to destroy an important position belonging to the group on the road linking Mosul to the nearby city of Tal Afar in the province.
They also destroyed three warehouses used across the city by the terrorists for rigging vehicles with explosives, pounded one of their rocket launch sites, and targeted one of their gatherings. An airstrike, meanwhile, blew up one of the group’s arms depots.
