{"id":4358,"date":"2017-06-22T06:34:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T06:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/4358-iraqi-forces-achieve-fresh-territorial-gains-in-mosul-s-old-city-rescue-civilians\/"},"modified":"2017-06-22T06:34:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T06:34:32","slug":"iraqi-forces-achieve-fresh-territorial-gains-in-mosul-s-old-city-rescue-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/4358-iraqi-forces-achieve-fresh-territorial-gains-in-mosul-s-old-city-rescue-civilians\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi forces achieve fresh territorial gains in Mosul\u2019s Old City, rescue civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iraqi forces have registered more territorial gains in the militant-held Old City of Mosul as they continue their operations to push Takfiri ISIS terrorists out of their last urban stronghold in the Arab country.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>Iraqi forces have registered more territorial gains in the militant-held Old City of Mosul as they continue their operations to push Takfiri ISIS terrorists out of their last urban stronghold in the Arab country.<\/h4>\n<h4>Staff Lieutenant General Abdulghani al-Assadi, a senior commander in the Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS), said on Tuesday that the counter-terrorism offensives are proceeding as expected but the progress is slow.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cThings are good and the battle is going as planned. We have many obstacles \u2013 the nature of the land, the nature of the construction, the roads and the civilian population \u2013 all of which make us slow down our work,\u201d he stated.<\/h4>\n<h4>The high-ranking Iraqi military commander further noted that civilians are fleeing heavy fighting between ISIS militants and army soldiers in the Old City, and up to 400 people approached the positions of government forces on Monday.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraqi forces have registered more territorial gains in the militant-held Old City of Mosul as they continue their operations to push Takfiri ISIS terrorists out of their last urban stronghold in the Arab country. \u00a0 Iraqi forces have registered more territorial gains in the militant-held Old City of Mosul as they continue their operations to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14818,"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-4358","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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