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Iraq: Fighting surrounds Great Mosque

IRAQI troops battled Isis terrorists yesterday around Mosul’s Great Mosque — where the so-called Islamic State was declared in 2014.

Federal police and the army’s rapid-response division advanced through the narrow, winding streets of the Old City, capturing the central railway station on the west side of the Old Bridge.

That left three of the city’s five crossings of the Tigris under full government control. All districts east of the river were freed earlier this year.

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