Iraqi forces killed 60 IS elements in battles of Nuri Mosque

Dozens of IS elements killed during the fighting on the right side of the city of Mosul, while two explosions targeted oil and gas protection forces in Kurdistan region near Kirkuk, northern Iraq. This comes at a time when the leaders of the organization in Al-Raqqa refused to return towards Syria. Informed source confirmed that these leaders carried out the rule of retribution against a number of people, who broke the pledge of allegiance to Baghdadi and left jihad in the battlefields.

The Federal Police Chief Major-General Raed Shaker Jawdat said that the forces of the commandos of the Federal Police continue to advance from the western axis is covered by an air cover of the army and artillery shelling directed towards the surrounding area of Farouk in the mosque of Nuri. The forces killed 60 extremists, including the leader in the organization, the extremist Aziz Ibrahim Faris al-Anzi, nicknamed Aziz Fangu.
The fighting also witnessed the destruction of five armed vehicles, eight motorized motorcycles, six aircraft-resistant weapons and the dismantling of three booby-trapped buildings. A security source said that an explosive device exploded at a car carrying oil and gas protection in Kurdistan near the mountains of "Patio" near Kirkuk, wounding a security element. He added that a second explosion occurred after a security force arrived at the scene without causing any human damage.
The commander of the Iraqi anti-terrorism forces, General Abdul Ghani al-Asadi, summed up developments in the operations of the right-hand side of the city of Mosul, saying that the little remains but it is the hardest.

In the same context, the Iraqi forces have regained control of more than half of the right side of Mosul since the start of military operations on 19 February last, while the security committee in the local government for the province of Nineveh, announced the recovery of 75% of this part.

Iraqi forces are fully aware of the importance of ancient Mosul and the western neighborhoods and how difficult it is to recover them, so they move forward from four axes, and the closer they are, the slower their progress and the more cautious.
 On the other hand, a security official said that no aid convey had reached Al-Aalil camp south-west of Mosul since Friday, adding that it is the main arrival point to refugees, and it is not clear whether the floods destroyed the bridges or not, but some soldiers said their can’t be used anymore. An official in Hamam Al-Aalil camp said that the flood affect the roads badly and there aren’t many supplies left.
 The supplies reach the camp in the same way they reach the others, through a road in Arbil, 80 kilometers far from Iraq's Kurdistan region. A refugee named, Essam al-Jubouri demanded more efforts to rebuild the bridges or bring bigger boats. He had to pay for the trip to get supplies for his family. A local source in Salah El Din Governorate said that unknown armed men killed one of the most prominent leaders in the left coast of the province of Shirqat named, Abu Adnan near his house and injured one of his escorts.
 The source also said that, a security force arrested Ahmed Ibrahim Hamad Najm Jubouri, who used to work in The Republican Hospital in Mosul ,and he is a leader in Daesh, and the father of the extremist Yassin Ahmed, Commander of operations in Samarra, General Imad al-Zuhairi announced that Samarra fighters carried out an operation in Aksa area and destroyed a stack of weapons belongs to Daesh, adding that in another operation the forces managed to arrest two terrorists tried to control Samarra.