Report: ISIL terrorists fleeing Mosul
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Tehran, Dec 20, IRNA -- Majority of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorists have fled the Iraqi city of Mosul, media reports said.
The eyewitnesses said that Mosul has been almost purged of ISIL terrorists, Al-Ahd news website reported.
The ISILs fleeing comes following the seizure of the neighboring Sinjar city in Nineveh province by the Iraqi army.
Earlier today, the Kurdish Peshmarga forces struck a major blow at the ISIL terrorists, and managed to liberate a string of villages from the Takfiri group in Mosul.
The Peshmarga fighters made gains against the Takfiri group and freed the three villages of Higher Beark, Lower Beark, and Akrishat in Northwest of Mosul, a day after they broke a months-long siege around the Sinjar Mountains.
On Friday, the Peshmarga marched towards ISILs military base in Tal Afar West of Iraqs second-largest city, Mosul.
Colonel Umed Mohammed, the commander of a group of 300 Peshmarga fighters in the village of Kasr Reej, said on Friday that the corridor to Sinjar is under control of Peshmarga forces and now people can travel back and forth.
The village of Kasr Reej is less than 50km from Sinjar and only four kilometers from villages surrounding Mosul controlled by ISIL.
On Friday, convoys of Peshmarga fighters returned to their bases to collect their new orders, while hundreds of fresh arrivals arrived from other fronts to join the advance on Sinjar.
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