Iraqi forces said on Tuesday they had seized the main Government offices in Mosul and its famed museum as they made steady progress in their battle to retake the city’s west from jehadis. The advances, which also included the recapture of three neighbourhoods, were announced on the third day of a renewed offensive against the ISIS group in west Mosul — the largest remaining urban stronghold in the “caliphate” declared by the jehadis in 2014.
Supported by the US-led coalition bombing ISIS in Iraq and Syria, Iraqi forces began their push against west Mosul on February 19.