30 ISIL Terrorists Killed in Iraqi Drone Attack in Mosul

Rasa - The Iraqi army's drone attacks on ISIL positions in Old City of Mosul region killed 30 terrorists.

News ID: 429324

Date: 29 April 2017 - 22:21

RNA - The Arabic-language Al-Mayadeen news channel quoted an Iraqi military source as saying that 30 ISIL militants were killed in the army's drone attacks.

He also said that several units of the Iraqi Federal Police have been sent to regions near al-Nuri mosque from the two pivots of Bab al-Jadid and al-Ban.

Meantime, the Iraqi fighter jets pounded ISIL bases near al-Manareh al-Hodaba in the Old City region.

In a relevant development on Thursday, Iraqi Federal Police Command declared killing of dozens of ISIL militants, as the troops advanced by 300 meters toward the Grand Nuri mosque in Mosul’s Old City.

Our troops in the Old City launched limited attacks and approached by 300 meters toward Nuri mosque from Qadhib al-Ban side,” Lt.Gen. Shaker Jawdat, chief of Federal Police, said in a statement.

The Grand Nuri al-Kabir Mosque is the place at which ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi gave his famous sermon in 2014 declaring the establishment of the group’s rule in Iraq and neighboring Syria.

The forces, according to Jawdat, “killed dozens of terrorists including the leader abu Faisal al-Jabouri and destroyed eight booby-trapped motorbikes and three other vehicles in al-Farouq region.”

“Five passageways were combed in Bab al-Jedid to be used for evacuation of civilians,” he added.

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