tag Iraqi Army

Iraqi army says advances in Mosul, despite suicide bombers

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi special forces backed by U.S. and Iraqi air power took control of two districts of eastern Mosul on Saturday after heavy fighting in which they destroyed at least 10 cars deployed by Islamic State as suicide bombs, the military said.
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Publish Date:13/November/2016 | 04:59

Iraqi Army Targets Site of IS Executions in Mosul

EghtesadOnline: The Iraqi Army was trying on Thursday to reach a town south of Mosul where the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group has reportedly executed dozens to deter the population against any attempt to support the US-led offensive in the last major city stronghold of IS in Iraq.
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Publish Date:29/October/2016 | 15:47

Iraqi army says it reached center of key town south of Mosul

EghtesadOnline: Iraq's military backed by air strikes from a U.S.-led coalition on Thursday seized the center of Shirqat, a northern town seen as a stepping stone in the campaign to recapture Mosul from Islamic State.
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Publish Date:22/September/2016 | 10:38

Iraqi army launches fresh assault toward Mosul center

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi army units surged toward the center of Mosul on Tuesday in an attack from the city's southeastern edges that could give fresh impetus to the seven-week-old battle for Islamic State's Iraqi stronghold.
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Publish Date:07/December/2016 | 10:36

Iraqi forces target Islamic State defenses on Mosul's eastern edge

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi forces backed by a U.S.-led air coalition targeted Islamic State defenses on the eastern edge of Mosul with artillery fire and air strikes on Tuesday, a day after fighting for the first time inside the city.
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Publish Date:01/November/2016 | 11:48

Islamic State holds up Iraqi army south of Mosul

EghtesadOnline: Islamic State fighters on Wednesday kept up their fierce defense of the southern approaches to Mosul which has held up Iraqi troops on the southern front and forced an elite army unit east of the city to put its more rapid advance on hold.
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Publish Date:26/October/2016 | 13:07

Iraqi army's elite force pauses advance near Mosul

ٍEghtesadOnline: An elite unit of the Iraqi army paused its week-long advance on Mosul as it approached the city's eastern edge on Tuesday, waiting for other U.S.-backed forces to close in on Islamic State's last major urban stronghold in Iraq.
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Publish Date:25/October/2016 | 20:05

Iraqi army drives Islamic State from Christian region near Mosul

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi army troops on Saturday stormed into a Christian region that has been under Islamic State control since 2014 as part of U.S.-backed operations to clear the entrances to Mosul, the militants' last major city stronghold in Iraq.
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Publish Date:23/October/2016 | 05:36

Iraqi elite unit, Kurdish forces in fresh push to close in on Mosul

EghtesadOnline: An Iraqi army elite unit and Kurdish fighters on Thursday launched a fresh offensive to dislodge Islamic State militants from villages around Mosul, their last major city stronghold in Iraq, with the air and ground support of the U.S.-led coalition.
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Publish Date:20/October/2016 | 07:23