Battle for Mosul: Iraqi Forces Cut off Road from Syria, Trap Daesh in City
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Forces battling Daesh [ISIS/ISIL] in northern Iraq have cut off the terrorists' last supply line from Mosul to Syria, trapping the group's militants in the city for a bloody last stand.
A day after the last major bridge over the Tigris in Mosul was bombed by the US-led coalition against the terrorist group, elite forces fighting in the east of the city also reported significant progress.
To the west of Mosul, Hashed al-Shaabi [Popular Mobilization Units] made a push to cut the road between two towns on the route heading to Syria, security officials said.
"Hashed forces have cut off the Tal Afar-Sinjar road," senior Hashed commander Abu Mahdi al-Mohandis posted on social media on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, a Kurdish security official told AFP that Hashed forces linked up with other anti-Daesh forces, including Kurdish fighters, in three villages in the area.
The town of Tal Afar itself, which lies about 30 miles west of Mosul, is still under the terrorists' control.
Iraqi forces launched a major offensive on 17 October to retake Mosul, which is the country's second city and where Daesh's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proclaimed a caliphate in 2014.
Federal forces have already entered the city from the east. Kurdish peshmerga and other forces are also closing in from the north and south, while only the west had remained open.
The latest development will make it very long and dangerous for the Takfiri group if it attempts to move fighters and equipment between Mosul and the Syrian city of Raqqa, the last two bastions of their crumbling claimed "state".
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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