Members of the Iraqi security forces hold a position inside a building on the front line in Mosul's Old City on May 3, 2017, during an offensive to retake the city from Islamic State (IS) group fighters. / AFP / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE
Baghdad: Iraq's armed forces on Thursday opened a new front against ISIS in Mosul in the northwest of the country, an Iraqi military statement said.
"The army's 9th Division and the 73rd Brigade of the 5th Division and forces of the federal police including the Rapid Response units attacked neighborhoods of Mshirfa, al-Kanisa and al-Haramat neighborhoods north of the right side of the city of Mosul," the military statement read.
