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IANS First published: December 28, 2016, 9:09 AM IST | Updated: 27 mins ago A member loyal to the Islamic State waves an ISIS flag. (Representative image/Reuters) Baghdad: Iraqi Prime Minister Haide al-Abadi said the Iraqi forces will need three months to eliminate the Islamic State (IS) militant group, as battles continued to free the IS stronghold in the city of Mosul. “In Iraq, I believe that conditions indicate that it needs three months to eliminate Daesh (IS group),” Abadi said in a press conference in Baghdad on Tuesday. Abadi’s comment came in response to the US general commanding coalition forces in Iraq who predicted in an interview that two years of battles to clear IS group from its twin capitals of Mosul and Raqqa, Xinhua news agency reported. Abadi also said the Iraqi forces are fighting what he named “war of attrition” against the IS extremist group, asserting that the security forces have destroyed 900 car bombs in Mosul during the past two months. According to official Iraqi statements, after nearly two months of street-to-street battles against IS militants inside Mosul, the elite army forces re-took control of 40 districts, while the army recaptured six more neighbourhoods. On October 17, Abadi announced a major offensive to retake Mosul, the country’s second largest city. Since then, the Iraqi security forces, backed by international coalition forces, have inched to the eastern fringes of Mosul and made progress on other routes around the city. Source: News18
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१९ कात्तिक,मोसुल (इराक) । इराकी सुरक्षा बलले शुक्रबार मोसुलको पूर्वीभागमा रहेको छ वटा जिल्ला पुनः नियन्त्रणमा लिएको छ । इस्लामिस्क स्टेट (आइएस) आतङ्ककारी समूह र सुरक्षाबलबीच भएको भीषण झडपपछि सो जिल्लाहरु नियन्त्रणमा आएको सुरक्षा स्रोतले जानकारी दिएको छ । आतङ्कवाद विरुद्धको राष्ट्रिय सेवा (सीटिएस) का सयौं कमाण्डो र इराकी सेनाको संयुक्त सहभागीतामा मोसुलको पूर्वी क्षेत्रमा शुक्रबार विहानबाट नै कारबाही सुरु भएको थियो । पूर्वी मोसुलको आदेन, समाह, कर्कुक्ली अल खाद्रा, अल इखाआ र अल क्युदस् पुनः नियन्त्रणमा लिएको सिटिएस स्रोतका एक अधिकारीले नाम नबताउने शर्तमा सिन्ह्वा समाचार समितिलाई जानकारी दिएको छ । सो जिल्लाहरुको प्रमुृख सरकारी कार्यालयहरुमा सेनाले इराकी झण्डा फहराएको बताइएको छ । यस झडपको क्रममा भएको हताहतीको भने विस्तृत विवरण आइसकेको छैन् । गत अक्टोवर १७ मा इराकी प्रधानमन्त्री हैदर अल अबादीले मोसुल सहर पुनः कब्जाको लागि भीषण सैनिक कारबाही सुरु गरिने जानकारी दिनु भएको थियो । त्यसपछि त्यहाँ सैनिक कारबाही सु्रु भएको हो । मोसुल इराकको दोस्रो ठूलो सहर हो । इराकको राजधानी बग्दादबाट चार सय किलोमिटर उत्तरमा अवस्थित मोसुल सहर सन् २०१४ को जुनबाट आइएस लडाकू समूहले कब्जामा लिएका थिए । सिन्ह्वा