Iraqi forces push to tighten noose on Mosul Old City

Record ID: 573482

  • Title: Iraqi forces push to tighten noose on Mosul Old City
  • Date: 9th April 2017
  • Summary: BAB AL-JADID DISTRICT, OLD CITY, MOSUL, IRAQ (APRIL 9, 2017) (REUTERS) SKYLINE OF OLD CITY WITH LEANING MINARET OF HADBA AT FAR END MORE OF TOP VIEW OF OLD CITY LEANING MINARET OF HADBA OF NURI MOSQUE AT OLD CITY IRAQI FEDERAL POLICE SNIPER FIRING SNIPER AIMING SNIPER AIMING FROM HOLE IN WALL OF BUILDING (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) SNIPER ABDUL QADER NADHIM HUSSEIN, SAYING: "We, the snipers team, are stationed at the defensive lines. Our duty is to provide cover for advancing troops. We are in full control and we are monitoring the enemy's movements and we are providing the headquarters with the coordinates and, thanks to God, the advances are ongoing." SKYLINE OF OLD CITY/ PLUME OF THICK SMOKE BILLOWING IN DISTANCE (AUDIO OF GUNSHOTS) MORE OF SMOKE COMING UP FROM TARGET HIT BY WARPLANES/ AUDIO OF GUNSHOTS MORE OF COLUMN OF SMOKE COMING UP / AUDIO OF GUNFIRE SKYLINE OLD CITY (AUDIO OF INTERMITTENT GUNSHOTS) MORE OF SKYLINE OF OLD CITY
  • Embargoed: 23rd April 2017 14:44
  • Keywords: Iraq Mosul forces old city
  • Location: BAB AL-JADID , MOSUL, IRAQ
  • City: BAB AL-JADID , MOSUL, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Military Conflicts
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016BOFK93
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:Intermittent gunshots could be heard on Sunday (April 9) and plumes of smoke rose from targets hit by warplanes as Iraqi forces tried to tighten the noose on Islamic State militants holed up in Mosul's Old City.
    Taking aim through a telescope on his rifle, police sniper Abdul Qader Nadhim Hussein opened fire on Islamic State snipers from a hole of a building in Bab al-Jadid district of Old Mosul.
    Iraqi forces are trying to advance through the narrow, maze-like streets towards the symbolic al-Nuri mosque, where Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a caliphate in 2014.
    But progress is much slower than in the early phases of the campaign, during which government forces took nearly three quarters of the city within five months.
    The front line has hardly moved in the past three weeks, and the militants, along with roughly 400,000 residents, are trapped inside a ring of Iraq troops.
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