Baku-APA. The U.S. military deployed to the east of Iraq’s Mosul has started shelling Daesh targets as part of an operation to retake the city, a Peshmerga commander said Saturday, APA reports qoting Anadolu agency.
Peshmerga Commander Omer Huseyin told Anadolu Agency from Camp Bashiqa in northern Iraq that American howitzers, deployed some 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) away from Mosul city center, were hitting Daesh targets.
Huseyin said the U.S.-led coalition warplanes also hit areas where Daesh terrorists were positioned.
"The Daesh terrorists started burning tires to block the view of the warplanes after international coalition forces struck the area," he added.
"Daesh terrorists also started burning the petroleum filled in their ditches, which they have dug around the city."
In mid-2014, the Daesh terrorist group captured the northern city of Mosul and overran vast swathes of territory in northern and western Iraq. The terrorist group remains in control of several parts of the country, including Mosul.
The Iraqi army and its allies are now gradually advancing on Mosul, which officials in Baghdad have vowed to "liberate" by year’s end.
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