Iraqi Resistance Gains Ground In March to Restore Mosul

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On Tuesday, elite counter-terrorism forces and Popular Mobilization fighters retook control over Telol al-Baj area, on the highway linking the town of al-Shirqat, situated about 250 kilometers north of the capital, Baghdad, to the southern part of Mosul, according to media reports.

Commenting on latest developments, Lieutenant General Abdul Ghani al-Assadi, commander of Iraq's counterterrorism forces said: "Security personnel have liberated Telol al-Baj, and several units have been deployed four kilometers away from the area to prevent the infiltration of vehicles rigged with explosives into the region."

He further added that Iraqi forces inflicted heavy losses on the ranks of Daesh terrorists in the area.

Iraqi pro-government forces also engaged the group's extremists in other parts of the northern Nineveh Province, killing scores of the Takfiris.

Elsewhere, in the western province of al-Anbar, Iraqi security forces retook Halabisa and Albu Alwan areas on the outskirts of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, and raised the national Iraqi flag in both regions.

Relatively, the northern and western parts of Iraq have been plagued by gruesome violence ever since Daesh terrorists mounted an offensive in the country in June 2014.

Meanwhile, Iraqi government forces, backed by fighters from allied Popular Mobilization units, have been pushing the militants out of the country's territory.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team