Mohamed Sabry Emam Muhammed
06 February 2017•Update: 06 February 2017
By Shaker and Mohamed Walid
NINEVEH, Iraq
The Daesh terrorist group still holds several parts of eastern Mosul, an Iraqi military commander said Monday.
Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Army Brigadier-General Mozafar al-Ramdani said Iraqi forces had yet to "liberate" a handful of neighborhoods in the city’s eastern half.
"This represents a source of concern for those in liberated parts of the city," he said.
Mosul is currently the target of a wide-ranging Iraqi army offensive aimed at recapturing the city -- once considered the country’s in terms of population -- from the terrorist group.
Late last month, the Iraqi army announced the "total liberation" of eastern Mosul after three months of fighting.
According to al-Ramdani, an anti-terrorism officer, top Iraqi security officials will soon meet to discuss the deteriorating security condition in a number of captured areas.
Army Brigadier-General al-, for his part, said Daesh militants were now using parts of eastern Mosul still under their control to carry out car-bomb attacks on army-held parts of the city.
He added that two soldiers had been killed on Sunday in an attack carried out from Daesh-held parts of eastern Mosul.
Daesh overran the northern city of Mosul -- along with vast swathes of northern and western Iraq -- in 2014.
