(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Iraqi security forces managed to take control of a key bridge and a neighborhood as they push further into Western Mosul, the last major urban stronghold of the ISIS terrorists in the country.
Lieutenant General Abdul Amir Yarallah - the commander of 'We Are Coming, Nineveh Operations' - said the Iraqi forces captured the neighborhood of Jawsaq as well as what is known locally as the fourth bridge across Tigris River on Monday.
He added that the Iraqi forces raised the national flag above several buildings in the neighborhood after inflicting heavy losses on ISIS terrorists, without elaborating.
A raid by the Iraqi Air force destroyed an ISIS-operated radio station in Mosul as security forces advance into the West of the flashpoint city.
Al-Bayan radio suddenly fell silent after its office was hit by an air raid, Iraqi security sources and an anti-ISIS activist said.
"The radio station's transmitter was struck, rendering it completely out of service. This means ISIS has lost its last media outlet in the city," activist Qusay al-Mosuli said.
Iraqi security forces surrounded Mosul's Southern district of Wadi al-Hajar from South and Southwest, and began advancing toward the ISIS lines to eventually liberate this part of the Northern city from the terror group.
The ISIS militants, however, have put up a fierce fight against the advancing forces, but face intense airstrikes who target ISIS positions in the area that Iraqi forces conduct by the use of helicopters to limit the collateral damage on local residents.
An Iraqi senior commander told Rudaw that it was especially hard for their forces to breach the ISIS concrete defense lines in al-Tayyaran district which was liberated this week, and is next to the Wadi al-Hajar.
The artillery units of the Iraqi army and volunteer forces (Hashd al-Shaabi) attacked ISIS's command center in a region near Tal Afar in Nineveh province, inflicting heavy losses on the terrorists.
"Hashd al-Shaabi and Iraqi army's Brigade 92 pounded with artillery shells a meeting of ISIS commanders near the police center of Tal Afar city, killing 70 terrorists and injuring many more," the Iraqi sources said.
It is now a long time that the Iraqi forces have been trying to win back Tal Afar city and cut ISIS's supply routes to Syria.
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