Just 5% of Kurdistan remain under Islamic State control
An Iraqi Kurdish military official says
that Peshmerga forces continue to advance and clear areas of Islamic
State, with only a small percentage of Kurdish land remaining under the
control of the militants.
Anwar Haji Othman, Deputy Minister for
the Peshmerga, told BasNews that Kurdish forces will continue their
operations until all Iraqi Kurdish land is retaken from IS.
“Only 5 percent of Kurdish land is under
the control of Islamic State militants and hopefully those areas will
cleared from the insurgents as soon as possible,” said Othman.
Othman added that 90 – 95 percent of the
Kurdistan Region and Kurdish areas outside the KRG borders, is
currently under the control of Peshmerga forces.
He also said that the recent success of Peshmerga forces to the west of Mosul has brought the destruction of IS closer.
“Now Peshmerga forces have taken control
of the main road between Mosul and Tal Afar and Syria, this causes huge
problems for IS militants and they won’t be able to move as freely as
before,” added the Kurdish military official.
IS has left many bodies of dead jihadis in the new liberated areas west of Mosul.
Dource: BasNews
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