24 October 2016 - 22:02
News ID: 424534
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Hashd Al-Shaabi:
Rasa - Iraqi Volunteer Forces (Hashd al-Shaabi) War Media Center announced in a statement that over 770 ISIL terrorists have been killed in the first week of the Mosul liberation operation.
Iraqi Forces

RNA - "A sum of 772 ISIL terrorists have been killed in the Mosul Liberation Operation and 23 others have also been captured by Sunday night," the center said.

 

It also announced that 127 bomb-laden vehicles and 27 mortar-launchers have also been destroyed, while "397 mines have been defused".

 

Media reports said on Sunday that Iraq's joint military forces had seized back 53 villages since the beginning of Mosul military operation.

 

"An arms depot and 7 suicide belts have also been destroyed," the Arabic-language media reported.

 

On Thursday, informed sources said that the Iraqi security and popular forces retook 14 villages in the Northern and Southern parts of Mosul from the ISIL control.

 

Iraqi sources said that the army and its allies seized back control of al-Khalediyeh, al-Salehiyeh and al-Khabat villages near al-Qayyara, Deiri, Samaqiyeh, Soqra, Kobra and Nahla villages near Sahl Neineva region, Sidaveh, al-Makouk, al-Manavir and Khanisat villages in Southern Mosul and Barima and al-Nouran villages in Northern Mosul.

 

They added that operations will continue until freedom of all regions in Mosul from the ISIL hand.

 

Meantime, reports said that the Iraqi army and volunteer forces have surrounded the center of al-Hamdaniyeh town in the Southeastern parts of Mosul.

 

Governor of Iraq's Nineveh Province announced on Wednesday the Iraqi army and popular forces managed to liberate 40% of the province from ISIL terrorists and they met with little resistance by the terrorists while liberating the villages in the Nineveh Province.

 

“The arrival of Iraqi security forces to Mosul cheered up the citizens and displaced people,” the Governor of Nineveh, Nofal Hammadi said in a press statement.

 

“We are waiting for the full liberation of our province and the Iraqi flag to be raised on its center,” he noted.

 

“Iraqi security forces liberated 40% of Nineveh Province, and they met with little resistance by the ISIL members in the liberated villages due to their retreated morale,” Hammadi concluded.

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