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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on January 17, 2017, 05:43:22 pm
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Iraq forces retake 'Jonah's tomb' bombed by IS in Mosul
The latest clashes occurred in the Shurta and Andalus districts, situated close to the eastern bank of the Tigris
Iraqi forces battling the Islamic State group in Mosul on Monday retook an area where IS militants levelled one of the city's most well-known shrines in 2014, officials said.
"We retook control of Nabi Yunus area... raised the Iraqi flag above the tomb," Sabah al-Noman, spokesman for the Counter-Terrorism Service spearheading the Mosul offensive, told AFP.
He said two other neighbourhoods in eastern Mosul were also retaken from IS on Monday.
The Nabi Yunus shrine - which was built on the reputed burial site of a prophet known in the Quran as Yunus and in the Bible as Jonah - was a popular pilgrimage site.
Continued: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/battle-mosul-iraq-forces-retake-bombed-jonahs-tomb-854389548
Jonah's tomb, who ever would have imagined!
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Or, "what's left of Jonah's tomb".