Iraqi military News

“All Iraqi lands are liberated from terrorist Daesh gangs,” the army said.

According to the official, dozens of snipers have been deployed by the Iraqi Army along the Tigris River in an effort to abort any Daesh attempt to attack Mosul's eastern side.

Air strikes and artillery salvoes continued to pound Islamic State`s last Mosul bastion on Friday, a Reuters TV crew said.  

The Iraqi army and Sunni tribal fighters have dislodged Islamic State from the al-Waleed border crossing into Syria, an Iraqi military statement said on Saturday.

IS militants have deployed snipers, suicide car bombers and suicide attackers on foot, the officers said. 

An Iraqi military officer says Islamic State militants have launched a gas attack in a newly- liberated area in western Mosul.

Iraqi security forces on Saturday pushed further toward the old city centre of the western side of Mosul amid fierce clashes with Islamic State (IS) terrorists, the Iraqi military said.

Iraqi military and hospital officials say mortar rounds fired by Islamic State militants have killed 16 civilians in neighbourhoods already retaken by troops.

Iraqi forces seeking to drive IS from second city Mosul also retook another village southeast of the site of Nimrud.

Families who could not flee should raise white flags to mark their location in the city 50 km west of Baghdad, the army's media unit said in a statement.

IS spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani has reportedly been wounded in an air strike in Iraq.