{"id":548,"date":"2017-08-20T17:55:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T17:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/iraqi-security-forces-retake-four-neighborhoods-in-tal-afar\/"},"modified":"2017-08-20T17:55:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T17:55:33","slug":"iraqi-security-forces-retake-four-neighborhoods-in-tal-afar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/iraqi-security-forces-retake-four-neighborhoods-in-tal-afar\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi security forces retake four neighborhoods in Tal Afar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\">\u062e\u0628\u0631\u06af\u0632\u0627\u0631\u06cc \u0645\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0634\u0631\u0642\u06cc<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; width: 565px;\" readability=\"91\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t\tCommander of Federal Police Forces Lieutenant General\u00a0Raed\u00a0Shaker\u00a0Jawdat\u00a0said on Sunday that security forces, backed by members of the Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS)\u00a0and fighters from pro-government Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), have reclaimed Abra al-Najjar, Abra Hanish, Greater Abra and Lesser Abra, Arabic-language\u00a0<em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Baghdad Today<\/em>\u00a0news website reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t\tMeanwhile, Commander of Tal Afar Liberation\u00a0Operation\u00a0Lieutenant General Abdul Amir Yarallah stated that security forces have recaptured the villages of Batisha, al-Alam, Khafajah, Upper Halabiya, and Marazif east of Tal Afar, and the villages of Qazal Qiyu and Kasr Mihrab southwest of the city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t\tAdditionally, Spokesman for Iraq&#8217;s Joint Operations Command (JOC), Brigadier General\u00a0Yahya Rasool, said it is estimated that 1,400 Daesh terrorists, mostly Arab and foreign nationals, have holed up in Tal Afar, located 63 kilometers west of Mosul.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t\tHe added that security forces have opened a safe exit\u00a0route for\u00a0civilians, stressing that security forces have tightened the noose around Daesh Takfiris to prevent them from fleeing into the Syrian territory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t\tEarlier, al-Forat news agency reported that 12 brigades from PMU forces, commonly known by the Arabic name Hashd al-Sha\u2019abi,\u00a0have participated in the fight to dislodge the Daesh terrorist group from Tal Afar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t\tPrime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the start of a ground offensive to retake Daesh-held Tal Afar in a televised speech early on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t\t\u201cYou either surrender, or die,\u201d Abadi addressed Daesh terrorists, who have been in control of the city since 2014.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t\tTal Afar and the surrounding area are among the last pockets of Daesh-controlled territory in\u00a0Iraq, after the country&#8217;s second-largest city of Mosul.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t\tOn July 10, Abadi formally declared victory over Daesh extremists in Mosul, which had served as the terrorists\u2019 main urban stronghold in the conflict-ridden Arab country.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u062e\u0628\u0631\u06af\u0632\u0627\u0631\u06cc \u0645\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0634\u0631\u0642\u06cc Commander of Federal Police Forces Lieutenant General\u00a0Raed\u00a0Shaker\u00a0Jawdat\u00a0said on Sunday that security forces, backed by members of the Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS)\u00a0and fighters from pro-government Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), have reclaimed Abra al-Najjar, Abra Hanish, Greater Abra and Lesser Abra, Arabic-language\u00a0Baghdad Today\u00a0news website reported. Meanwhile, Commander of Tal Afar Liberation\u00a0Operation\u00a0Lieutenant General Abdul Amir Yarallah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[638],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Iraqi security forces retake four neighborhoods in Tal Afar - madaresharghi | An Analytical Look at Middle Eastern Developments<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/iraqi-security-forces-retake-four-neighborhoods-in-tal-afar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Iraqi security forces retake four neighborhoods in Tal Afar - madaresharghi | An Analytical Look at Middle Eastern Developments\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u062e\u0628\u0631\u06af\u0632\u0627\u0631\u06cc \u0645\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0634\u0631\u0642\u06cc Commander of Federal Police Forces Lieutenant General\u00a0Raed\u00a0Shaker\u00a0Jawdat\u00a0said on Sunday that security forces, backed by members of the Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS)\u00a0and fighters from pro-government Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), have reclaimed Abra al-Najjar, Abra Hanish, Greater Abra and Lesser Abra, Arabic-language\u00a0Baghdad Today\u00a0news website reported. 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