On ninth day in succession , Iraqi forces are fighting a battle of Mosul after mobilization of tens of thousands of soldiers, backed by troops of the international coalition forces , Peshmerga and factions of the popular crowd, while the estimated number of the organization Daesh fighters in return by between 4000 and 8000, and believed that they had mined the city with explosives and mines, and filled the trenches with oil as a preparation to setting fire to it, and dug many tunnels and trenches to counter attack. the early hours showed the successful beginning for battles with the rapid progress of the forces involved in the operation on different axes.
And the air attack was started by more than 80 air strike carried out by multinational American, French and Iraqi fighters, followed by artillery shelling of the international coalition and the Iraqi army and missile operations of the Peshmerga lasted an hour and a half before the joint forces advancing from seven axes simultaneously, namely: axis Khazar and Mount of Zrdek eastern Mosul ( Peshmerga), the axes of Makhmour southeast of Mosul (the Peshmerga and the Iraqi army), the axes of Qayyarah southern Mosul, (the Iraqi army and militias crowd and federal police), theaxes Tel-Askif north of Mosul (peshmerga units of Christian volunteers), the axes of ASCI wanah and it is northwest of Mosul (the Iraqi army and peshmerga ), the axes of Mosul Dam northwest of Mosul (the Iraqi army and the Peshmerga), and the axis of Ba’shiqah northeast of Mosul (the peshmerga and Arab tribes). In this air attack, the ground forces did not face great difficulty in retaking control of a large number of villages and about 40 kilometers of agricultural land around Mosul (in the seven axes), which allowed it to come close to a distance of about nine kilometers from the city walls.
And a battle map has become with the end of the first day in the following form:
The restoration of nine villages from the control “Daesh” at the axes of Khazar east of Mosul. The commander of units of 70 peshmerga , Jaffar Mustafa estimated the space that was restored in the axis of Khazar by forty square kilometers, and the troops arrived to the area of Barttila , located about 25 kilometers east of Mosul .
In the axes of Makhmur , southeast of Mosul, six villages were restored from thecontrol of “Daesh “They are : Abraham al- khalil , Adelah, Kan Harami, Abbas Rajab, Al-Jadidah and the troops of ninth Division of the Iraqi army and the peshmerga arrived near to balawat village , which lies 37 kilometers from Mosul. In the axes of north and northwest of Mosul , the sites “Daesh” were bombed by aviation and artillery, but there was no ground attacks. In return , the militants “Daesh” set fire to a number of oil wells existing eastern city of Mosul , as well as ignite the grooves of the crude oil they have prepared in advance. The organization intensified of suicide operations also in the fighting axes in Al-Riqah that explains his inability to fight in the open areas and the face of intense aerial bombardment.
A few days after the start of the battle, Haider Abadi, the Iraqi prime minister said that the military operations against Daesh taking place faster than expected, while the Command of the Peshmerga (armed Kurdish region forces) announced that it has launched an operation in a large scale , north and north-east of Mosul ; and announced the restoration of 12 villages in 3-axis northern city of Mosul, Nineveh province, and became on a distance by 12 km north of the city.
The command of operations of liberation of Nineveh, said that it has been restored Khalidiya Village and Ain Marmeah encircled the village Salhiah in the southern axes of the eastern side of the Tigris River. The rapid forces of federal police managed to reach the intersection of the district of Shura of the southern sector of the Mosul and took control of it; as the Iraqi military announced on Friday the restoration of the Christian town of Bartella , east of Mosul. And announced the liberation of 78 villages and killed up to 800 armed men of the terrorist organization “Daesh” ,a week after the start of the operation . In the areas liberated by of the Iraqi forces from “Daesh”, it was disclosed of the devastation left by the terrorists on this lands marked with a long history. In terms of Bartila east of Mosul, the cameras recorded large-scale destruction made to the church Mart Hmona of Syrian Orthodox. With the approach of the allied forces from Mosul, the organization Daesh launched surprise attacks in other parts of the country. The violent attack was targeted two days ago, the district of Rutba in Anbar province, hundreds of kilometers away from the city of Al -mosul. Before the announcement of Iraqi forces that the Anbar Operations Command regained full control of the district of Rutba west of the country, and following the rest of the elements of al-Daesh in the region after fierce battles with militants of the regulation.
In this remarkable military progress of Iraqi forces in the fighting fronts in the battle of al-Mosul against Daesh and the confirmation of the Pentagon in conjunction with the entry of the Battle of Mosul to the ninth day of liberation , nearly 800 square kilometers were liberated from “Daesh” in the vicinity of Mosul. It is, according to information obtained by the Rawabet Center for Research and Strategic Studies, which reports that within ten |to fifteen days, Iraqi forces will liberate large parts of the left coast in the city of Mosul from the grip of the organization Daesh and Iraqi flag will be raised on them, and then Daesh ill move with their military equipments and fighters to the right coast in Mosul after the booby-trap of bridges and main roads in the left coast of the city of Mosul. This case demonstrates the military retreat that suffered by the organization Daesh as a result of the multiple forms of attacks by Iraqi forces and the international coalition. And thus a move to the right coast of Mosul, may be an important sanctuary for the leaders of the organization Daesh due to the fact that the coast is characterized by ancient warren and narrow lanes. The organization aims to prolong the battle of Mosul, as much as possible, though achieved, but it is in the rule of ending considering its existence as “temporary,” such as a grim chapter in the history of modern Iraq.