Hīt offensive

Battle for Mosul Day 42: 1,000 ISIL Terrorists Killed in Mosul

BELGRADE - Comprehensive military campaign to liberate the Northern Iraqi city of Mosul continued on Monday with Iraqi Special Forces battling to clear ISIL from Eastern Mosul and declaring that they have so far killed nearly 1,000 militants.

Iraqi forces have entered the town of Hit, a week after launching an operation to retake the western town from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants, commanders at the scene said on April 4.
     

Iraq's counter-terrorism forces backed by army troops and U.S.-led coalition air strikes advanced towards the western town of Hit on March 31, in an attempt to dislodge the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants, the military said.

The United States on Dec. 28 welcomed the Iraqi forces' victory over the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in the city of Ramadi.

"We commend the government of Iraq and the brave Iraqi forces that are displaying tremendous perseverance and courage in this fight," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said in a written statement.

Two police officers and seven Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants were killed on Oct. 26 in a major operation in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r.

Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmu? told reporters in Istanbul that 12 ISIL militants were captured in the operation while five police officers were wounded. 

A suicide bomber in an explosives-rigged vehicle killed two Iraqi army generals north of the Anbar provincial capital Ramadi on Aug. 27, a military spokesman said.

Four US F-16 warplanes landed in Iraq on July 13, the first batch of a much-delayed delivery aimed at boosting the ailing Iraqi military's capacity, the defence ministry said.