Iraqi forces face wave of suicide attacks in Mosul

Описание: (15 Mar 2017) Iraqi forces faced strong resistance from the Islamic State group on Wednesday as they continued their advance towards the Old City of Mosul.
Lieutenant Colonel Hamid Sakran Habib, commander of one of the Iraqi army's Emergency Response Division brigades, said his forces had been stopped just 100 metres (328 feet) from the iron bridge across the River Tigris and the Old City.
Habib said his soldiers and Federal Police forces had suffered a wave of suicide car bomb attacks, which had slowed down their advance.
Rapid Response Units are advancing north along the left bank of the Tigris river.
Federal Police units are pushing through the centre and the old city aiming at the Al Nouri mosque, where Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi declared the establishment of the caliphate in 2014.
The Mosul offensive is being waged from three directions with two divisions of special forces and a force of federal police advancing along the Tigris River, which divides the city into its western and eastern half.
Mosul's fall will be the biggest blow yet to IS, largely breaking its hold over territory in Iraq and ending its rule over half the "caliphate," which at its height stretched from northern Syria through western Iraq.

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