Liberation operations in Mosul stopped due to bad weather

ISIS organization launched an attack with mortars targeting the liberated Jawasaq neighborhood, in the right coast of the city of Mosul. While security source stressed halting of the ongoing military operations to liberate Mosul, temporarily, due to bad weather and heavy rains.
  
This comes at a time when 12 civilians were injured, in the left coast of the city of Mosul, with symptoms identical to the symptoms of exposure to an attack with chemical weapon, in fighting to restore the right side of the city, from the extremist organization.

A doctor from the International Red Cross (ICRC), based in nearby Irbil, confirmed the incident to the BBC.
An 11-year-old boy has severe respiratory and skin problems and a month-old baby was also injured.

The ICRC doctor said the substance used was still unknown, but it was being treated as a chemical attack.
The injuries were apparently caused in two separate incidents when mortar fire hit houses in east Mosul and victims complained of a foul smelling chemical.

Meanwhile, an official military source told, number of Iraqi Media and Arabs Today, that the rain and weather conditions hampered the progress of the Iraqi forces to complete their objectives in the direction of Mosul city center, adding that bad weather also hampered the air strikes carried out by coalition and Iraqi aircraft.

The same source stressed that the elements of the extremist organization bombed Jawasaq area, on Saturday morning, with more than 19 mortar shells, adding that the bombing inflicted deaths among civilians, but he did not know their numbers until now.

A security source said that ISIS organization took advantage of the bad weather, Saturday, to launch attacks on the liberated areas in the right side of  Mosul, which has forced the international coalition aircraft to intervene.
 
"Coalition aircraft again shelled sites and vital targets of ISIS in Nabi Sheet area, in the left coast of Mosul," the source added.

Military operation to liberate western Mosul, began in February 19, to retake the rest of the city from the so-called "Islamic State." Backed by U.S. airpower and bolstered by Shi'ite militias and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, Iraqi forces launched their initial assault in October to retake the city.