27 neighborhoods in Mosul are liberated: Operation Command
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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan24) – The Iraqi Mosul Operation Command announced that the Iraqi security forces liberated 27 neighborhoods in Mosul's left side.
In a statement released on Saturday, the Mosul Operation Command said that the Iraqi security forces continue clearing the liberated areas from Islamic State (IS) sleeper-cells stating that 27 of neighborhoods have been liberated in the eastern (left) side of Mosul.
Security forces from the 9th Armored Division, 3rd Brigade continue incursion inside the neighborhoods of Intisar, Jadida, al-Mufti, Younis al-Sabaawi and Palestine
Lieutenant-General Abdul-Ameer Yaralla told reporters that the Iraqi Special Forces took control of the Al-Qadsiya Al-Oula and al-Morour neighborhoods on the west side of the city of Mosul, inflicting large losses among IS extremists.
Sabah al-Numani, the spokesperson for the Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS ) forces, told Iraqi television they had reached within 3 or 4 km (2 miles) of the Tigris, and hoped to take the remaining districts of the east side "with the same speed" they had achieved so far, Reuters reported.
On the humanitarian side, according to Reuters, the United Nations agencies who distributed aid inside recaptured eastern areas for the first time on Thursday were almost overrun by residents suffering acute shortages of food, fuel, and water, and often trapped for days at home by fighting.
On Friday, the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Joint Crisis Coordination Centre announced that since Mosul liberation operation on October 17, 98,000 civilians from the city had been displaced, 62,000 of whom arrived in the Kurdistan Region.
Editing by Ava Homa
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