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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on June 26, 2017, 10:42:05 am
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Iraq says ISIL suicide bombers blocked in Mosul
Attacks targets neighbourhood west of Old City, ISIL's last stronghold in city where 150,000 civilians remain trapped.
ISIL is estimated to only control about seven percent of Iraq [File: Khalid al Mousily/Reuters]
Iraq's armed forces say they have blocked a major wave of attacks by suicide bombers from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) outside the Old City of Mosul.
Sunday's attacks targeted Hay al-Tanak, a poor neighbourhood west of the Old City, the last stronghold of the fighters in Mosul.
It is the first wave of attacks reported outside the Old City since the battle to capture the historic district from ISIL started a week ago.
Continued: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/06/iraq-isil-suicide-bombers-blocked-mosul-170626082142053.html