Iraqi forces fight door-to-door in Mosul as battles enters seventh month

Record ID: 645518

  • Title: Iraqi forces fight door-to-door in Mosul as battles enters seventh month
  • Date: 18th April 2017
  • Summary: MOSUL, IRAQ (APRIL 18, 2017) (REUTERS) MEMBERS OF IRAQ'S FEDERAL POLICE LOADING ARTILLERY IN BAB AL JADID FEDERAL POLICE OFFICER ADJUSTING ARTILLERY FEDERAL POLICE OFFICER FIRING ARTILLERY / EXPLOSION ARMOURED VEHICLE FIRING (AUDIO OF GUNFIRE) FEDERAL POLICE MEMBER FIRING ARTILLERY / SMOKE SKYLINE OF DISTRICT (AUDIO OF AIRCRAFT) COMMANDER OF FEDERAL POLICE 3RD REGIMENT, 9TH DIVISION, 3RD DIVISION, LIEUTENANT COLONEL HUSSEIN LAZIM ZGHAYER, LOOKING THROUGH HOLE IN WALL (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) COMMANDER OF FEDERAL POLICE 3RD REGIMENT, 9TH DIVISION, 3RD DIVISION, LIEUTENANT COLONEL HUSSEIN LAZIM ZGHAYER, SAYING: "Operations are ongoing, thanks God. They (Islamic State militants) carry attacks on our defensive lines, but each time we repel them and they run away, leaving bodies of their dead fighters behind. Minutes ago they launched an attack and we responded by shelling them with mortar rounds, killing two of them and their bodies were left in front of our defensive lines." VARIOUS OF DAMAGED CARS IN STREET WITH DEBRIS / DESTROYED BUILDINGS AND DAMAGED DOME OF UNIDENTIFIED MOSQUE (AUDIO OF GUNFIRE) HUMVEES WITH IRAQI FLAG DRIVING ON ROAD FEDERAL POLICE OFFICERS NEAR HUMVEE HUMVEE AND ARMOURED VEHICLE IN STREET
  • Embargoed: 2nd May 2017 14:55
  • Keywords: Federal police Old City Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Mosul battle
  • Location: MOSUL, IRAQ
  • City: MOSUL, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Military Conflicts
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016CXFDQF
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Iraqi forces continued to fight door-to-door in the Old City of Mosul on Tuesday (April 18), as the U.S.-backed offensive to capture Islamic State's de facto capital in Iraq entered its seventh month.
    There were exchanges of gunfire and mortar inside the old city near the Grand al-Nuri Mosque, from where Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a "caliphate" spanning parts of Iraq and Syria.
    The war between Islamic State militants and Iraqi forces is taking a heavy toll on several hundred thousand civilians trapped inside the city, with severely malnourished babies reaching hospitals in government-held areas. About 400,000 civilians, or a quarter of Mosul's pre-war population, are trapped in the Old City, according to United Nations' figures.
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