ISIS militants reclaimed the strategic Kornish Street in the Old Mosul district after they launched a counterattack, said a Rudaw reporter in Mosul, adding that Iraqi armed forces have been trying to drive the militants out of the area once again.
The spokesman for the Joint Operation Command in Iraq said Sunday that the Islamic State attacked government troops in western Mosul with a type of gas, the second such attack in as many days.
Scores of civilians were killed this week in suspected USA -led coalition airstrikes in western Mosul, now the subject of a major offensive to oust IS militants from the area, according to a local Iraqi NGO.
Ms. Grande pointed out that almost 300,000 civilians have already fled western Mosul and "hundreds of thousands more may in the days and weeks ahead". "Already, more than 493,000 people have left, leaving nearly everything behind", said Ms. Grande. "The enemy has intensified their exploitation of civilians by moving them in large numbers into harm's way", he said. Power to the refrigerators is supplied by a cable they bought themselves.
"Mosul has pushed us to our operational limits", said Ms. Grande.
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Duke was grilled on wall costs by the Democratic members of the same committee in early March during her confirmation hearing. The company also wanted to know if they would be indemnified against any liability in case they had to use their firearms.
Under global humanitarian law, all parties to the conflict are obliged to do everything possible to protect civilians, ensure they have the assistance they need and limit damage to civilian infrastructure.
"Nothing is more important than protecting civilians".
The UN said last month that 12 people, including women and children, had been treated for possible exposure to chemical weapons agents in Mosul.
Iraqi forces are now engaged in a battle to take crowded west Mosul from about 2,000 IS fighters.
"Near Mosul, eight strikes engaged seven Daesh tactical units; destroyed eight fighting positions, three VBIEDs [vehicle borne improvised explosive devices], three mortar systems, two Daesh vehicles, two heavy machine guns, and one front-end loader", the release stated on Monday.
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