Scores of ISIS fighters killed in Mosul
BY REBECCA KHEEL - 12/26/16 11:30 AM EST
Nearly 100 fighters with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) were killed by Iraqi and coalition forces Sunday as the battle for Mosul continues, according to Monday reports.
The 97 militants were killed in three separate incidents, Iraq's Joint Military Command reportedly said in a statement.
In the first, Iraqi forces detonated two car bombs as ISIS fighters were trying to advance near a federal police position south of the city. The bombs killed 21 ISIS fighters, the Iraqi military said.
The second incident happened as ISIS tried to launch attacks on military positions using car bombs and suicide bombers in the neighborhoods of Intisar, al Salam and al Shaimaa' in southeastern Mosul. Iraqi forces killed 51 ISIS fighters, according to the military.
Finally, coalition aircraft carried out airstrikes on an ISIS gathering in al Wahda neighborhood in eastern Mosul, killing 25.
Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, is ISIS’s last urban bastion in the country, and, as expected, they’ve been fighting fiercely to keep it against the ongoing coalition offensive. ISIS has held the city since 2014.
Iraqi, Kurdish Peshmerga, tribal militia and coalition forces launched an offensive in October to retake the city. Iraqi special forces entered the city limits within weeks, but advancement has slowed as the fight has turned into street-by-street urban warfare.
The U.S. military typically does not tout the number of enemy killed, citing a desire to avoid the Vietnam War practice of using "body counts" as misleading measures of success.
Estimates have placed the number of ISIS fighters killed in the two-year anti-ISIS campaign at anywhere from 25,000 to 50,000.
Who: ISIS fighters
When: 12/26/2016
What: ISIS fighters' killing
Where: Mosul
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ISIS,
ISIS fighters,
Mosul,
killing,
bombs,
street-by-street urban warfare,
25,000 to 50,000 fighters
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The most things ISIS teaches me is that religion is much bigger than I though before. Mujahid (means holy warriors) might do everything they thick holy even to kill people. I thick we should have a ability to tell it's property or not and not only depend on our religion before we do anything. Religions in my mind are reassuring. But now what I see is totally different.
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