Iraq says ISIS dislodged from a third of eastern Mosul

  15 November 2016    Read: 1334
Iraq says ISIS dislodged from a third of eastern Mosul
Iraqi forces have dislodged Islamic State from one third of the eastern side of Mosul, an interior ministry spokesman said on Tuesday, four weeks into the US-backed campaign to take back the city.
“More than a third of this [eastern] side has been liberated,” the spokesman, Brigadier-General Saad Maan, told a news conference at the Qayyara military base, the main hub for the forces trying to end IS’s two-year rule of Mosul.

So far, 955 insurgents have been killed and 108 captured on the southern frontlines of the city alone, Maan said.

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