Between 9,000 and 11,000 people were killed in the nine-month battle to recapture the Iraqi city of Mosul from the daesh group (ISIL), an Associated Press (AP) investigation has found.
Iraqi forces are to deploy new tactics in a fresh push against Deash (Islamic State) in Mosul, military officials said on Friday, after advances slowed in the campaign to drive the militants out of their last stronghold in the country.
Iraqi were massing troops on Monday to cut remaining supply routes to Mosul, IS's (Daesh terrorist group) last major stronghold in Iraq, closing in on the road that links the Syrian and Iraqi parts of its self-declared caliphate.
Kurdish Peshmerga forces launched a fresh attack on IS (Deash) forces early on Sunday as part of a campaign to capture Mosul, the militants' de facto capital in Iraq, Kurdish officials said.
Kurdish Peshmerga forces backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes launched a fresh attack on IS militants in northern Iraq in the early hours of Sunday, as part of a plan to close in on their de facto capital Mosul, a Kurdish official said.
