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Battle for Mosul: Iraqi Troops Push towards Central City

Battle for Mosul: Iraqi Troops Push towards Central City
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Iraqi army units launched a fresh assault in southeast Mosul Tuesday and a senior commander was quoted as saying an armored division had advanced to within less than a mile of the Tigris River running through the city center.

Battle for Mosul: Iraqi Troops Push towards Central City

In this regard, the Iraqi television quoted operations commander Lieutenant-General Abdul Ameer Rasheed Yarallah as saying troops had entered the Salam Hospital in the southeastern neighborhood of Wahda, close to the river.

Meanwhile, an army colonel told Reuters the offensive, backed by fresh reinforcements and launched at 6 am on Tuesday, aimed to overwhelm Daesh militants who have been waging fierce counter attacks against the army in the east of the city.

The fierce urban warfare has slowed advances by the army's elite Counter Terrorism Services in the east of the city, and the army's Ninth Armored Division in the southeast.

"We are using a new tactic - increasing the numbers of advancing forces and also attacking from multiple fronts to take the initiative and prevent Daesh [ISIS/ISIL] fighters from organizing any counterattacks," the colonel said over phone.

The troops are part of a 100,000 strong coalition of Iraqi soldiers, security forces, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and mainly Shiite Popular Mobilization Units that launched the attack on Daesh's stronghold in Iraq seven weeks ago.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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