{"id":4092,"date":"2017-04-18T07:45:16","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T07:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/4092-iraqi-forces-advance-into-mosul-s-old-city-close-in-on-historical-mosque\/"},"modified":"2017-04-18T07:45:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T07:45:16","slug":"iraqi-forces-advance-into-mosul-s-old-city-close-in-on-historical-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/4092-iraqi-forces-advance-into-mosul-s-old-city-close-in-on-historical-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi forces advance into Mosul&#8217;s Old City, close in on historical mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iraqi government forces, backed by allied fighters from Popular Mobilization Units, have gained more ground in a fresh offensive launched against ISIS terrorists in Mosul&#8217;s Old City, trying to fully liberate the terror group&#8217;s last bastion in the Arab country.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>Iraqi government forces, backed by allied fighters from Popular Mobilization Units, have gained more ground in a fresh offensive launched against ISIS terrorists in Mosul&#8217;s Old City, trying to fully liberate the terror group&#8217;s last bastion in the Arab country.<\/h4>\n<h4>Lieutenant General RaedShakirJawdat, Federal Police Commander, announced that Iraqi forces had advanced at least 200 meters deeper into the Old City after they launched their operation on Sunday morning from Qadheeb al-Ban area in western Mosul.<\/h4>\n<h4>&#8220;Federal police snipers stationed on the roofs of buildings seized control of the perimeter around the al-Hadba minaret [of the historical Great Mosque of al-Nuri] and targeted the suspicious vehicles and armed persons,&#8221; Iraq&#8217;s Arabic-language al-Sumaria television network quoted Jawdat as saying.<\/h4>\n<h4>The Sunday advance broke a month-old stalemate between the two sides as ISIS terrorists are holding out in the densely populated Old City, where army tanks and heavy vehicles are incapable of passing through its narrow and maze-like streets.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraqi government forces, backed by allied fighters from Popular Mobilization Units, have gained more ground in a fresh offensive launched against ISIS terrorists in Mosul&#8217;s Old City, trying to fully liberate the terror group&#8217;s last bastion in the Arab country. \u00a0 Iraqi government forces, backed by allied fighters from Popular Mobilization Units, have gained more &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[467,33,85,117],"class_list":["post-4092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-city","tag-iraq","tag-isis","tag-mosul"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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