Escalating battles on seven axes in Mosul amid confusion Daesh

Writings Monday , October 17.2016

Escalated fighting, during the past two hours, several axes in the city of Mosul under sorties dense air US Airways, and the French, and Iraq, which resulted in the destruction of about 60 per cent of the rocket launchers belonging to the "Islamic State of antibiotics floor" (Daesh), as well as a number of mines surrounding the city fields, amid the confusion and clear for "Daesh."

According to military sources , an Iraqi in the leadership of the Liberation of Nineveh, " the first hours of the attack resulted in the clear progress of the forces attacking from different axes, amid weak resistance to organize" Daesh ", notably in the southern and northern axis areas, where dozens of agricultural hectares and open areas. "

In the same context, said the commander of the military operations, Major General Najim al - Jubouri, the" joint forces have made significant progress, represents the liberation of a number of villages and towns, and there is confusion evident in the ranks of the organization Daesh , "noting that" the results achieved in the first day is excellent. "

Soldiers of the Iraqi army and the peshmerga , officials revealed for the use of " Daesh " a large number of suicide bombers in areas withdrew this morning, where he attacked gatherings of Iraqi forces and Kurdish peshmerga in repeater mode precedent cities in Iraq .

Iraqi army officer explained that about 14 suicide bombing cars and trucks attacked army troops and peshmerga, noting that "there are casualties among the Iraqi forces, were also thwarted a number of these suicide attacks." Has been besieged 20 militants of the organization in a house in the village of Bazkurdan Peshmerga.

Baptized fighters Daesh Also, the torching of a number of existing eastern city of Mosul oil wells, as well as ignite the grooves of crude oil worked on the pre - prepared.

In the meantime, he said , officials peshmerga forces they regained control of eight villages so far, which is Bask, and Sheikh Amir, and camel little big camel and Trgelh and Bazkurdan and Kberlu and vertical, so that the peshmerga forces have reached the main road to spend Hamdania (9 km north of Mosul).

He explained Brigadier Saman Faryad, Peshmerga forces, that the goal of the first day includes a "control as much as possible from villages before sunset," adding that "Daesh depends on the shelling with mortars and rockets, as well as suicide attacks, avoiding direct confrontation."

He pointed spokesman that " the failure of regulation in absorb the first shock at the attack of Mosul, but his position within the city is still intact , "denying that they have been airdrops in Mosul axes by US forces since the start the attack.

On the villages that was restored, he said , " are now installed our sites inside of progress to other locations. "

He said Chief of Staff of the peshmerga, the team Jamal Mohammed, that" the approximate number of militants "Daesh" in Mosul between 10 and 15 thousand armed , "noting that" the battle is still in its infancy, it is too early to talk about the timing or the date of the storming city. "

Military operations and focused on seven axes, since the first hours of the offensive, and the air cover for the international alliance, which is the focus of Khazar, and Mount Zrdek, east of Mosul, and stationed its Peshmerga forces, and the axis of drunken southeast of Mosul, where the Iraqi army and the peshmerga, and the axis of Qayyarah south of Mosul and where there are military forces and militias crowd and federal police.

The fourth axis wicking roof, located north of Mosul, and the peshmerga forces and units of the Christian volunteers, in addition to the axis of ASCII and he, northwest of Mosul, and the axis of the Mosul Dam, north - west, and is fighting two Iraqi army and peshmerga and, finally , the focus Ba'shiqah the northeast, where there Thacadat the Peshmerga and the Arab tribes.

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