Through the day, special forces could be seen going house to house in Gogjali, Mosul’s easternmost district, while sappers searched the road for explosives and booby traps left behind by the jihadis driven out a day earlier. “We fear that Daesh militants could attack our forces or the town with mortars,” he said. Fadhil said special forces had detained three suspected militants in the area. The Norwegian Refugee Council warned that more than one million civilians trapped inside Mosul “are in grave danger” as Iraqi troops advance into the city. In a televised speech later that evening to praise the Mosul operation, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi downplayed an escalation.

Source: thestar November 02, 2016 16:50 UTC