ERBIL (Iraqi Kurdistan) (Sputnik) – According to the Iraqi army command, "millions of leaflets" were dropped on Mosul, Hawija and Qaim, a town on the border with Syria, to tell civilians about the "victories of the Iraqi army and the last hours of the Islamic State on Iraq’s territory."
5 December 2016, 22:35 GMT
Earlier in the day, the Iraqi armed forces and anti-terrorist units launched an offensive against the positions of Daesh terror group, outlawed in Russia, in several districts of Mosul simultaneously.
Mosul, the second biggest Iraqi city, as well as a number of other northern and western Iraqi cities and towns were seized in 2014 during an IS offensive.
Iraqi forces backed by the US-led coalition against the Daesh launched the operation to reclaim Mosul from the extremist group, outlawed in Russia and the United States among others, on October 17.
