Security forces are preparing to liberate Mosul Airport from Daesh
Security forces are preparing to liberate Mosul Airport from Daesh
Published on: 11-12-2016, 18:24
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A security source revealed on Saturday, the readiness of the Iraqi armed forces to carry out a wide military operation to regain control of the Mosul airport, pointing out that to regain control of the airport will provide the Iraqi forces is an important strategic position, and therefore easier to break into the city from the south-centered process.
The source said, “The Iraqi forces have taken all measures to combat move toward the village of Abu Saif hills, near Mosul airport, and control them, and then head towards the airport in the south of the city and storming it.”
And the possibility of the feet of the organization to sabotage the airport as they did in the asset Qayyarah, source pointed out that the reduction of it, “lies, however, an international coalition that can address any flight move of the enemy inside the airport and thus preserving the integrity and fully about.”
He said that to regain control of the airport “will be presented to the Iraqi forces is an important strategic position, and therefore easier to break into the city from the southern axis to a very large operation.”
It is a city of Mosul airport about 5 km center, built date back to 1920, where he created the RAF during the British occupation of Iraq, period.
The transition from a military to a civilian airport in 1922, before becoming a military base after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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