- The Shillong Times

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March 27, 2016

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A rocket is fired from a rocket launcher outside Makhmour, about 75 km (47 miles) east of Mosul, Iraq, on Friday. An Iraqi military spokesman said Thursday that the long-awaited military operation to recapture the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State militants "has begun." The spokesman for the Joint Military Command, Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool, said Iraqi forces have retaken several villages on the outskirts of the town of Makhmour. (PTI) — A rocket is fired from a rocket launcher outside Makhmour, about 75 km (47 miles) east of Mosul, Iraq, on Friday. An Iraqi military spokesman said Thursday that the long-awaited military operation to recapture
the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State militants “has begun.” The spokesman for the Joint
Military Command, Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool, said Iraqi forces have retaken several villages
on the outskirts of the town of Makhmour. (PTI)

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