Tens of thousands of Iraqi forces, inching their way towards Mosul for the second day, have encountered roadside explosives and booby traps along the way, as they continued their offensive to retake the city from the armed group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS).
Iraqi commanders said on Tuesday that progress was being made, with an estimated 30,000 Iraqi army troops, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and Sunni tribal forces pushing from two main fronts against the ISIL stronghold in Iraq.
They added that ISIL fighters were hitting back with suicide car bomb attacks but that the offensive was going as planned.
"Many villages have already been liberated," said Sabah al-Numan, the spokesman of the elite counter-terrorism service.
Source: Aje
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