Nineveh military operations continue to face the fighters Daesh through the main axes developed by the military and security forces of Iraq and it was able to achieve a clear and tangible progress in the eastern and south-eastern axes around the center of city of Mosul , with the escalation of confrontations and clashes across the western axis and can identify the most important situations and events and we are at the end of the second month of the battle:
1.The fighters of the anti-terrorism formations managed to strengthen their presence and full control of several neighborhoods within the eastern axis of the city represented by the neighborhoods (Alecoqgele- green Apartments and, Al- Samah ,Zahra, al-Tahrir ,Qadisiyah al-thaniya, Eden,al-Bakr) with the continuation of clashes and confrontations between the elements Daesh and attacking forces in the neighborhoods of ( Quds – al-Nahdhah – Falah- Masarif-Meshraq-al-Akhaa al-Awolah) and anti-terrorist fighters used a clear field approach to avoid suicide attacks carried out by Daesh fighters across sending car bombs to clash areas to be confronted with them and blow up some of it from remote distance and advance through the lines and the main streets of the neighborhood areas to be prevented from harming civilians and locals, but obviously we have noticed that this axis is started to form a heavy burden and exhausted fighters due to it does not keep up with the other axes of the effort exerted by the fighters of the counter- terrorism and provide backing for them from the rest of the axes .
2.We can to note that the south-eastern axis of troops of ninth division has achieved excellent advancement represented in the rush to the inside through Hayya-al-Salam and turning around the control points and field detachments established by Daesh fighters that have access to the vital and strategic objectives represents a deeper ground which the ninth division fighters managed to control on the Dar al- Salaam hospital building and Dar diets and the rush to be in neighborhoods (Shaimaa-Salam- al-Mazari) and by this progress the attacking force has tightened field control and the presence of the bank nearby Tigris River , and could reinforce its progress by access to the beginning of the fourth bridge to the city from the left side area.
- the northern axis is still presented in the villages surrounding the district of Tilkaif waiting to break into the region and control of the last stronghold of al Daesh in the Nineveh Plain area and facilitate the rush of the division 16 and guard Nineveh fighters toward the residential neighborhoods close to the center of the city of Mosul represented by the neighborhoods (the Arabi , Hadba, – kindi, kafaat ) after it seized its control of the regions of waterfalls(Shallalat) and wisadah , Baoizh but the notice on the axis that, after more than 49 days , it did not manage from reaching the main objectives because ambushes and defenses and deployment of fighters Daesh around the areas surrounding this axis.
4.the security and military forces within the southern axis are trying to regain control of the important area (Albu Saif) to enable the division15 fighters and federal police to rush towards Mosul city center and strengthen its presence in important military and civilian places and the headquarters represents the first look to enter the right side, namely, (Camp Ghazlana- Mosul airport and zone Aldndan) and due to the high plateau Busev and the difficulty of access to it on the ground and heavy spread of elements Daesh on it and their use anti-aircraft guns and mortars are all factors that helped to delay the storming operation of Albu Saif zone .
- the popular crowd battalions is still surrounding the district of Tel Abth within the geographical area of the district of Tal Afar within the western axis and trying to storm it and mastery of them for being the first area that the fighters of the popular crowd were able of field control within this axis as this region has seen a large population displacement represented in the displacement of more (4) thousands of families from Tal Afar Center and district of Tel Abth toward the island and the villages surrounding the district Baaj for fear of breaking into their areas by the popular crowd in addition of the nature of the clashes and the fighting that take place in this vital region and fears of the local population from being harmed with their families.
6.The city of Mosul and its people suffers after spending 49 day to the beginning of military operations, a sharp rise in food prices due to the scarcity and lack of water in most residential neighborhoods with a clear dearth of medical kits and therapeutic medicine and full interrupted of power supply since operations began in addition to the upsurge in casualties and wounded citizens of the city as the result of the continued aerial and artillery bombardments by the international coalition aircraft and the exchange of shelling between the two parties (the security and military forces and Daesh) with defensive tactics used by the organization in car bombings or suicide operations carried out by Daesh fighters near the engagement areas that fall within the residential neighborhoods of the city.
- the human and social disaster experienced by the city of Mosul are continuing of the displacement of its members where the number of displaced people has reached more than 90 thousand people after threatened their lives were threatened for the continuation of military operations and the proximity of it to their residential place and the aerial and artillery bombardment experienced by their regions for fear of being targeted and their families, and upon arrival to camp IDPs in the areas of Khazar and Hussen al- Sham , they were surprised with difficulties of tents which had been prepared for them in the camps and the lack of the most basic necessities of life and lack of health care and power outages.
Rawabet Center for Research and Strategic Studies