Iraqi government forces, backed by fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units, have killed more than 1,300 members of the Takfiri ISIS militant group ever since they launched joint operations to flush the extremists out of the western part of Mosul.<\/p>\n
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Iraqi government forces, backed by fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units, have killed more than 1,300 members of the Takfiri ISIS militant group ever since they launched joint operations to flush the extremists out of the western part of Mosul.<\/p>\n
The commander of the Nineveh Liberation Operation, Lieutenant General Abdul Amir Yarallah, said on Wednesday that soldiers from the army\u2019s Ninth Armored Division had killed 1,321 ISIS militants, including senior commanders, since the start of the offensive in February, English-language online newspaper Iraqi News reported.<\/p>\n
Yarallah added that 55 districts, villages and vital facilities \u2014 or a total area of 406 square kilometers \u2014 had also been liberated from the clutches of the terrorists ever since.<\/p>\n
The top Iraqi commander further noted that a total of 111,750 people had also been evacuated from conflict zones and moved to refugee camps.<\/p>\n
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