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More Than 100 IS Fighters Attack Iraqi Forces in Mosul

EghtesadOnline: More than 100 Islamic State militants launched a counterattack in Mosul on Wednesday, killing 11 Federal Police and four civilians in clashes that were still underway, Iraqi security officials said.
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Publish Date:14/June/2017 | 24:35

Iraqi troops seize main bridge, advance on mosque in battle for Mosul

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi government forces battling Islamic State for Mosul took control of a main bridge over the Tigris river on Wednesday and advanced towards the mosque where the group's leader declared a caliphate in 2014, federal police said.
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Publish Date:15/March/2017 | 14:27

Mosul victims treated for chemical agents as displacement accelerates

EghtesadOnline: The number of civilians escaping the fighting in Mosul has increased significantly as battles intensify between U.S.-backed Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants, and some have been exposed to chemical agents, the Red Cross said on Friday.
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Publish Date:04/March/2017 | 05:31

Iraqi forces in Mosul fight Islamic State counter-attack

EghtesadOnline: Islamic State fighters launched a counter-attack against advancing U.S.-backed Iraqi forces in western Mosul during an overnight storm, as the battle for control of the militants' last major urban stronghold in Iraq intensified.
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Publish Date:02/March/2017 | 13:17

U.S.-backed Iraqi forces close in on IS-held Mosul government buildings

EghtesadOnline: U.S.-backed Iraqi forces on Tuesday battled their way to within firing range of Mosul's main government buildings, a major target in the offensive to dislodge Islamic State militants from their remaining stronghold in the western side of the city.
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Publish Date:28/February/2017 | 14:39

Iraqi forces aim to secure Mosul bridge, link up to east bank

EghtesadOnline: U.S.-backed Iraqi forces pushed deeper into western Mosul on Sunday, aiming to capture a bridge across the Tigris which would link the city's government-held eastern bank with the ongoing offensive against remaining militants in the west.
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Publish Date:27/February/2017 | 06:45

Iraq launches offensive on last Islamic State stronghold in Mosul

EghtesadOnline: U.S.-backed Iraqi forces on Sunday launched a ground offensive to dislodge Islamic State militants from the western part of the city of Mosul, and put an end to their ambitions for territorial rule in Iraq.
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Publish Date:20/February/2017 | 05:33

Iraqi Troops Advance in Eastern Mosul Amid Fierce Clashes

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi special forces battled Islamic State militants on Monday in two key neighborhoods in the eastern half of Mosul, a senior commander said, advancing deeper after fully routing IS from the sprawling complex of the Mosul University, a major step in the massive operation to retake the city.
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Publish Date:16/January/2017 | 15:11

Fresh advance in east Mosul to begin within days - U.S. commander

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi forces will resume their push against Islamic State inside Mosul in the coming days, a U.S. battlefield commander said, in a new phase of the two-month-old operation that will see American troops deployed closer to the front line in the city.
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Publish Date:26/December/2016 | 15:04

Iraqi troops push towards central Mosul from southeast

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi army units launched a fresh assault in southeast Mosul on Tuesday and a senior commander was quoted as saying an armored division had advanced to within less than a mile (1.5 km) of the Tigris River running through the city center.
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Publish Date:06/December/2016 | 11:08

Iraqi forces yet to seal off Mosul as battle enters second month

EghtesadOnline: The U.S.-backed offensive to crush Islamic State in its last major city stronghold in Iraq entered a second month on Thursday as forces arrayed against the hardline Sunni group sought finally to seal off Mosul from all sides.
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Publish Date:17/November/2016 | 15:47

Iraqi special forces seize Mosul district in fresh push

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi special forces said they pushed deeper into Mosul on Friday despite heavy resistance from Islamic State militants using civilians as cover, and were holding half a dozen city neighborhoods seized in the last 10 days.
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Publish Date:12/November/2016 | 05:58

Iraq forces accused of killing, torturing civilians south of Mosul

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi government forces killed and tortured civilians south of Mosul, rights groups said on Thursday, the first such reports of alleged abuse in a U.S.-backed campaign to retake the city from Islamic State.
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Publish Date:10/November/2016 | 08:31

Iraqi forces fighting Islamic State say nearing Mosul airport

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi security forces drove Islamic State fighters from the center of a town just south of the militants' main stronghold of Mosul on Saturday and reached within a few km (miles) of an airport on the edge of the city, a senior commander said.
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Publish Date:06/November/2016 | 05:21

Iraqi forces push deeper into eastern Mosul

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi special forces said they recaptured six districts of eastern Mosul on Friday, expanding the army's foothold in the Islamic State bastion a day after its leader told his jihadist followers there could be no retreat.
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Publish Date:05/November/2016 | 05:13