Corpses litter Mosul streets as Iraqi forces pound I.S. positions

Record ID: 898773

  • Title: Corpses litter Mosul streets as Iraqi forces pound I.S. positions
  • Date: 10th July 2017
  • Summary: OLD CITY, MOSUL, IRAQ (JULY 10, 2017) (REUTERS) MILITARY VEHICLES NEAR RIVERBANK / SCATTERED RUBBLE AND WRECKAGE / AUDIO OF BOMBING HUGE CLOUD OF SMOKE BILLOWING BEHIND WRECKED BUILDING HUMVEES DRIVING IN STREET STREWN WITH RUBBLE AND DAMAGED BUILDINGS RUBBLE AND DAMAGE ALL OVER STREET GROUP OF IRAQI SOLDIERS STANDING NEXT TO HUMVEE FLYING IRAQI FLAG MANNING ENTRANCE TO STEEL BRIDGE IRAQI SOLDIERS AND HUMVEE MANNING ENTRANCE TO BRIDGE (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) COUNTER TERRORISM SERVICE MEMBER JAAFAR SADIQ TURKI, SAYING: "We are now on the outskirts of the Old City. We completed military operations inside the Old City and we are now some 100 metres away from al-Hurriya Bridge." STREET LITTERED WITH SCATTERED DEBRIS AND SMOKE COMING UP BEHIND DEMOLISHED BUILDING BLACKENED AND DAMAGED BUILDING SMOKE RISING BEHIND DEMOLISHED HOUSES GROUP OF FEDERAL POLICE MEMBERS WALKING ALONG STREET DOTTED WITH RUBBLE AND DAMAGED BUILDINGS GROUP OF FEDERAL POLICE MEMBERS WALKING PAST DAMAGED BUILDINGS AND PILES OF RUBBLE
  • Embargoed: 24th July 2017 16:43
  • Keywords: Battle for Mosul Islamic State conflict remaining IS positions Mosul close to victory liberating Mosul
  • Location: OLD CITY, MOSUL, IRAQ
  • City: OLD CITY, MOSUL, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Military Conflicts
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016P4YIX3
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES
    Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi was set to declare victory over Islamic State in Mosul on Monday (July 10) as only a few dozen militants put up resistance in the city that was the capital of their self-declared caliphate for the past three years.
    Gunfire and explosions could be heard as the U.S.-led coalition pounded the remaining few Islamic State positions.
    The stench of corpses along Mosul's streets was a reminder of the nearly nine months of gruelling urban warfare required to dislodge Islamic State from the city of 1.5 million.
    Seven bodies lay in an alley near a riverbank the militants reached on Sunday (July 9) while attempting to escape.
    Much of Mosul has been destroyed in the fighting, with rows of houses flattened by air strikes and centuries-old stone houses gutted by explosions.
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