Iraqi
security forces on Monday retook control of three neighborhoods in
the city of Mosul, as fierce clashes to drive out the Islamic State
(IS) militants continued, the Iraqi military said.
In the
eastern front, the elite forces of Iraq's Counter-Terrorism Service
(CTS) completely freed the neighborhood of Baladiyat and made a
significant progress in the adjacent neighborhood of Sukkar, amid
fierce clashes with the extremist militants, a statement by the Iraqi
Joint Operations Command said.
The battles
in the two neighborhoods left some 25 militants killed and a
booby-trapped car destroyed, the statement said.
Also in the
day, the CTS commandos carried out operation to clear the
neighborhoods of Furqan and Atibaa in eastern side of the city, after
the troops recaptured them from IS militants in the past few days
after heavy clashes, the source said.
During the
clearing operation, dozens of IS militants attacked the troops in
Furqan neighborhood, but the troops repelled their attack, killing
some 30 militants and destroying two of their vehicles carrying heavy
machine guns, the source added.
In the
southeastern front, the Iraqi federal police and army soldiers freed
the neighborhoods of Domiz and Palestine after days of heavy
street-to-street fighting against IS militants, while the battles
continued in the nearby neighborhoods of al-Salam and Sumer, leaving
dozens of IS militants killed and destroying three booby-trapped
vehicles, the statement said.
The troops
also attacked the neighborhoods of Sahiron and East Yarimja in
southern Mosul amid heavy clashes with the terrorist militants,
according to the statement.
In the
northern front, the army soldiers backed by international aircraft
continued their sporadic clashes during clearing operation to many of
the 168-building residential compound of Hadbaa, which were freed in
the advance which occurred for the time on Friday in the northern
edges of the eastern side of Mosul, the statement said.
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