{"id":604,"date":"2017-08-24T16:17:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T16:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/?p=604"},"modified":"2017-08-24T16:17:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T16:17:50","slug":"over-300-daesh-terrorists-slain-31-districts-retaken-in-tal-afar-op-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/over-300-daesh-terrorists-slain-31-districts-retaken-in-tal-afar-op-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 300 Daesh terrorists slain, 31 districts retaken in Tal Afar op: Official"},"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=\"106\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t\tThe spokesman for Iraq\u2019s Joint Operations Command (JOC), Brigadier General Yahya Rasool,\u00a0told a press conference in Baghdad on\u00a0Thursday that Iraqi soldiers together with fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units, commonly known by the Arabic word Hashd al-Sha\u2019abi, and members of the Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) have managed to regain control over 31 districts between August 20 and August 23, Arabic-language al-Sumaria television network reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t\tRasool added that Iraqi forces and their allies have killed 302 Daesh terrorists, destroyed 33 car bombs, 15 militant positions, 35 underground tunnels and 19 mortar launchers. They have defused 752 improvised explosive devices and cleared seven booby-trapped houses as well, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t\tThe remarks came as the media bureau of Hashd al-Sha\u2019abi announced in a statement that volunteer fighters and security forces had wrested complete control over al-Jazeera region east of 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\tSeparately, the media bureau of Iraq&#8217;s\u00a0Badr Organization stated that the pro-government forces had liberated Jolaq junction in Tal Afar, and raised the national flag over the Directorate of Education building.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t\tThe commander\u00a0of the Tal Afar liberation operation, Lieutenant General Abdul Amir\u00a0Yarallah,\u00a0also said that soldiers from the 37th\u00a0Infantry Brigade, 9th Armored Division and fighters from the 11th Brigade of Hashd al-Sha\u2019abi have liberated al-Nour al-Oula neighborhoods from the clutches of Daesh Takfiris, and made advances through al-Nasr area.<\/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\tMoreover, fighters from the 26th\u00a0Brigade of Hashd al-Sha\u2019abi have recaptured Khader Elias hilltop south of Tal Afar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t\tAlso on Thursday, Hashd al-Sha\u2019abi forces seized Daesh\u2019s self-proclaimed \u201cEducation Bureau of the Nineveh State\u201d in al-Wahda neighborhood northeast of Tal Afar, and liberated al-Khadra district east of Tal Afar following two days of heavy clashes with Daesh Takfiris.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t\tLater in the day, Iraqi army soldiers and Hashd al-Sha\u2019abi fighters reclaimed al-Wahda neighborhood, and are now moving towards al-Rabi\u2019 neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t\tThe International Organization for Migration said in a statement on Tuesday that nearly 3,200 individuals had fled Tal Afar to two refugee camps south of Mosul over the past four days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t\t\u201cThese internally displaced persons carried a minimal amount of clothes; some only had what they wore, some were partially clothed,\u201d the statement said, adding that thousands more are expected to flee in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t\tThe Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says it has received around 1,500 families, or some 9,000 people, from Tel Afar at the Hamman al-Alil displacement camp in the past week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t\tThe UN refugee agency also says it is\u00a0making preparations to accommodate around 30,000 more refugees from the city within the next few days.<\/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 The spokesman for Iraq\u2019s Joint Operations Command (JOC), Brigadier General Yahya Rasool,\u00a0told a press conference in Baghdad on\u00a0Thursday that Iraqi soldiers together with fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units, commonly known by the Arabic word Hashd al-Sha\u2019abi, and members of the Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) have managed to regain control over 31 districts [&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 - 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