Oct. 9 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The militias of the Popular Mobilization Forces (FMP) have announced the beginning of a new security operation in southern Mosul to eliminate all traces of supporters of the Islamic State jihadist organization, which once turned the city into its great territorial bastion in Iraq.
Units from the PMF’s Nineveh Operations Command have launched the operation against four outlying areas (Ibrahimiya, Al Hussainiya, Al Muzamilat and Tal Al Rayyan) south of the city.
Also collaborating in the operation are units of the Iraqi Army from the 16th Division and the Emergency Regiments of the Police of the province of Nineveh, to which Mosul belongs.
Islamic State decided to raze the city to the ground at the height of its conquest on July 10, 2014, at the start of three years of fundamentalist rule plagued by executions, forced displacement, torture and virtually a full spectrum of abuses.
Some 138,000 houses were damaged or destroyed in the city during the conflict, which ended on July 10, 2017. The final battle for the liberation of the city left thousands of civilians dead.
“The operation is part of the strategic plans to persecute the remnants of the Islamic State, destroy their hideouts and secure the areas of responsibility to preserve the security of citizens,” concludes the statement collected by the official Iraqi news agency INA.
