Iraqi Forces Find ISIL's Large Arms Depot in Nineveh Province

TEHRAN (defapress)- The Iraqi security forces arrested a number of ISIL terrorists and discovered a large arms warehouse in Nineveh province in Northern Iraq.

News ID: 68946

Date: 02 March 2018 - 20:23

A source in the Iraqi security forces told Sputnik that the Department of Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism in the province of Nineveh arrested the ISIL terrorists in al-Maidan regions in the old city of Western Mosul.

The source added that there were a large number of bombs, mortars and suicide belts in the depot.

Earlier, a mass grave containing the bodies of 20 tortured women was found in the outskirts of Mosul in Northern Iraq.

“Relics of 20 women were found inside a mass grave while removing debris in Western Mosul,” police official Omar al-Hajjar said.

“(The women) were executed by the so-called ISIL as they were trying to escape toward the Eastern side of the city during the liberation offensives last year,” Hajjar added.

The ISIL terrorists invaded Iraq in 2014, seizing Mosul, the country’s second largest city and made it the group’s capital in the country.

In summer of 2017, Iraqi forces regained control over Mosul followed in November by the town of Rawa, the last ISIL stronghold in the country.