On Thursday, the Iraqi Army Brigade 72 and Division 15 of Nineveh Operations Command liberated 200 people, including families and children, in the villages of al-Haj Ali and Mahana, which lie around 70 kilometers (45 miles) southeast of Mosul and in the vicinity of the town of Makhmour.

Also Iraqi forces Also aid Hundreds of people Fleeing Mosul from Daesh terrorist group.

The development came on the same day as Iraqi fighter jets struck Daesh(Islamic State , ISIS , ISIL , IS and Daesh) positions west of al-Siniya district in the northern province of Salahuddin as well as the outskirts of the oil-rich city of Baiji, killing scores of the extremists and destroying their explosive-laden vehicles.

Separately, Iraqi army troopers backed by fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units(Hashad Al-Shabi) thwarted a Daesh offensive against the city of al-Saqlawiyah, located 50 kilometers (31 miles) west of the capital.

Several Daesh Takfiris were reportedly killed and a car bomb destroyed in the process.

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