Vanguards of the security and military Iraqi forces began the advance towards the center of the district of Qayyarah of the province of Nineveh Having been able to restore a number of villages surrounding the center, which coincided with the progress made by Kurdish forces in the areas of (Makhmour -alkwyr).
This field change in the arena of confrontation underscores the fact that the US presence, and the consultation and advices provided by strategic experts of the present military commanders on the battlefield after the control operation over Qayyarah base has gained its importance in strengthening the logistics situation in strengthening the US presence at the base and its rehabilitation in order to serve political US in Iraq and achieve its goals to tighten the control on the organizations and fighters of (Daash).
Many of the indicators that we see an important and accurate in completing the restoration process (the center of the district of Qayyarah), which can be summarized as follows:
- Tighten the control on the Qayyarah opens an important road and corridors that help the security and military forces and emergency forces of the Nineveh province police employees to advance toward ( the district of Shoura) that make up the strategic depth of the fighters of (Daash) where many of the organization’s leaders are stationed.
- military activities and retaking villages around the center of the district of Qayyarah and to secure control of the international road from Baiji toward Junction of the district of Sharqat and area of Tlul Alpag down to the junction of the district of Qayyarah have field , strategic , military importance of helping Iraqi military units to complete its task in the progress towards the outskirts of the city of Mosul.
- The district of Qayyarah is considered the main stronghold of the Wilayat of Tigris of the formations of (Daash) and the loss means an extension of the losses suffered by the leaders (Daash) in the state of the island(Wilayat al-jazeera) in the withdrawals, which has been occurred from the districts and areas of Anbar province seized by the previous battles.
- military convoys advanced from the nearby international road linking between the provinces of Salaheddin -Nineveh from the direction of Al-jazeera the toward the area of Hadher urban are trying to meet at the important point which is the junction of Qayyarah that if the military units were managed to complete access to it, they would achieve an important achievement that is to advance towards the depth to reach the district of Al-Hadhar which secures to it the attempt to get to the district of Tel- Afar, which is located north of the Al-Hadhar .
- Strengthening the military presence and the progress made by Kurdish forces in the sectors of (Makhmour -alkwyr), In fact, the opposite to the district of Qayyarah and thus will enable military units of the progress and the unification of the military effort between them .
Will we see in the coming days or weeks to reach the outskirts of the city of Mosul, or that the scene will be more complicated through the methods and procedures and precautions and events that could be carried out by fighters of (Daash) to stop the progress and crawling of Iraqi military convoys and Kurdish forces across all the fighting axes that the arena of Nineveh operations witnessed ???
Rawabet Center for Research and Strategic Studies