Battle for Tal Afar: Up to 2,000 Daesh Terrorists Surrounded
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Commander in Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces [Hashd al-Sha'abi] Hadi al-Amiri said that the number of Daesh [the Arabic acronym for the Takfiri ‘ISIS/ISIL' group] terrorists in Tal Afar, surrounded by Iraqi forces, does not exceed 2,000 members with a half of them being foreign nationals.
Tal Afar is the last major stronghold of Daesh terrorists on the border of Iraq with Syria.
"The data about the number of Daesh militants in Tal Afar differs - from 1,600 to 2,000 terrorists. A half of them are foreigners," al-Amiri told the Iraqi Al-Sumaria broadcaster.
Earlier in the day, Iraqi armed forces and popular units liberated five villages close to the town, gained control over a tunnel network dug by Daesh and killed over 20 terrorists, including foreign nationals.
On Sunday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the beginning of the military offensive aimed at retaking Tal Afar, some 30 miles away from recently liberated Mosul.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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