Iraqi Forces Enter Western Mosul, in Fierce Battle Against ISIS
2 Iraqi government-controlled 1 Eastern Mosul ISIS-controlled   Western Mosul 2 Mosul Tigris Baghdad IRAQ 1 IRAQ Hamam al-Alil 10
Miles 2 Iraqi govt.-controlled 1 Eastern Mosul ISIS-controlled   2 Western Mosul Tigris 1 10 Miles Hamam al-Alil FEB. 26, 2017
Muhammadawi said that The liberation of the government compound is a step forward for our forces, a vital motivating position for us
By OMAR AL-JAWOSHY and SEWELL CHANMARCH 7, 2017
BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces trying to reclaim Mosul penetrated the western part of the city on Tuesday, retaking a bridge
and several public buildings during heavy clashes with the Islamic State, officials said.
Lt. Gen. Abdul Amir al-Muhammadawi, a spokesman for an elite unit commanded by the Interior Ministry, said
that the buildings retaken from the Islamic State included a courthouse where militants had carried out sentences including whippings, stonings and beheadings, and a building from which militants had thrown people to their deaths.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported on Tuesday
that about 46,000 people in Mosul had been displaced since Feb. 19 — including 13,350 on Friday alone — in the highest continuous displacement of civilians since October.
Civilians reported that the bombardment and gunfire were the heaviest since Feb. 19, the beginning of the operation to retake the western
part of the city — the country’s second-largest, where roughly a million people are trapped and living in desperate conditions.
Lt. Gen. Raed Shakir Jawdat, the chief of the federal police, said
that security forces had retaken a branch of the central bank; the archaeological museum; and a government compound.