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Two car bombs have targeted the Tal Yabes district of eastern Mosul, killing 14 civilians and one soldier.

The bombings, which occurred on Tuesday, also wounded 12 people.

Mosul is the last urban area in Iraq that is still controlled by ISIS. Large-scale operations are underway by the Iraqi military from several fronts to liberate the city.

Iraq’s Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) recently announced that around 90 percent of eastern Mosul had already been purged of ISIS.

ISIS has been attempting to slow the progress of the advancing Iraqi forces by planting car bombs on their way. Just days earlier, Iraqi troops were targeted with at least three car bombs in Mosul’s neighborhoods of Shurta and Andalus.

A total of 137,880 people have been displaced from Mosul and neighboring areas ever since the start of the Iraqi operations, according to figures released by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on January 9.

ISIS has been blocking the normal exit of civilians from the city.

Date
2017.01.17 / 11:12
Author
Axar.az
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