Iraq
Iraqi police
commandos have captured two neighborhoods in west Mosul on Sunday
amid fierce clashes with Islamic State militants. The advance is
ongoing amid UN concerns that the assault could force up to 400,000
civilians to flee, if they manage it.
RUPTLY’s
new footage from Mosul shows displaced residents from the western
Maamoun district arriving at the government-controlled al-Jadaa camp
in Mosul, Sunday, as Iraqi forces push deeper into the city.
About 1,000
civilians, predominantly women and children, left Mosul on Saturday
and were taken to humanitarian camps located to the south of the
city, according to Reuters.
The Tayaran
neighborhood is now under the “full control” of Iraqi forces,
Maj-Gen. Haider al-Maturi said Sunday, according to AP. IS militants
deployed at least 10 suicide car bombs, but only one of them reached
its target. Two policeman were killed and five were wounded,
al-Maturi said. Two militants, one of Iraqi decent and one foreigner
who speaks Russian, were arrested.
The other
neighborhood, Mamun, was “fully liberated” as well, Brig-Gen.
Haider Fadhil said, adding that 15 suicide car bombs were deployed,
but none of them hit the troops.
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