Iraqi Security Forces Take Village Back From Daesh
Iraqi forces have liberated a strategic village from Daesh as part of their push to retake Mosul, the most important urban area under the Takfiri group’s control.
A Monday statement from the Nineveh Operations Command said Iraqi forces entered the village of Kabrouk in a swift operation which took Daesh by surprise.
The village is the fifth to fall back under the government’s control since March when the army launched an operation to liberate Mosul, which is Iraq’s second-largest city.
The recapture of Kabrouk facilitates access to the oil town of Qayyara whose liberation would cut off Mosul from the territory held by the militants further south and east.
The capture came as the military opened a new front against terrorists in the Makhmour area, around 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of the city.
More troops are to be assigned to the battle in Makhmour, while the final push for Mosul is estimated to require thousands of servicemen.
wing to the Monday gain, Iraqi troops are now only less than 50 kilometers (30 miles) from Mosul.
Daesh has been wreaking havoc in Iraq since June 2014. The Iraqi military’s most important victory against the terrorists ever since has been their liberation of the central city of Ramadi, Anbar Province’s capital, last December.
Baghdad said at the time that the army would use Ramadi’s liberation as a “launch pad” to free Mosul.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has also pledged to rid the entire country of Daesh by the end of 2016.
Daesh buries 35 members alive in northern Iraq
On the other hand, the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group has reportedly killed nearly three dozen of its own members in Iraq’s conflict-ridden northern province of Nineveh on charges of fleeing the battlefield.
A provincial source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Arabic-language al-Sumaria satellite television Tuesday that the terrorists buried 35 fellow extremists alive on the outskirts of Qayyarah.
The town is located about 35 miles (60 kilometers) south of the militant-held city of Mosul.
The source said the slain militants were accused of fleeing clashes with pro-government Iraqi forces in the village of Bashir, situated some 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk.
Fighters from Popular Mobilization units recaptured Bashir from Daesh terrorists on May 1.
Daesh killed 35 of its fellow terrorists by firing squad at the Ghazlani military camp south of Mosul on February 28 after accusing them of conspiracy against the Takfiri outfit.
A day earlier, the extremists had shot and killed a dozen members of the terrorist group in the village of al-Hadar south of Mosul.
The slain militants had reportedly been accused of escaping clashes with Iraqi government forces in Iraq’s embattled western province of Anbar.
Gruesome violence has plagued the northern and western parts of Iraq ever since DaeshTakfiris launched an offensive in the country in June 2014, and took control of portions of Iraqi territory.
The militants have been committing vicious crimes against all communities in Iraq.
Iraqi army soldiers and fighters from allied Popular Mobilization units are seeking to win back militant-held regions in joint operations.
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