Coalition airstrike kills 9 Daesh militants in Mosul

By Mohamed Walid and Serhad Shakir

NINEVEH, Iraq

Nine Daesh militants were killed and four others injured in a U.S.-led coalition airstrike late Monday in northern Mosul, according to an Iraqi police officer.

Five airstrikes targeted a Daesh military post, a training site and an ambulance carrying Daesh militants in northern Mosul, colonel Wessam al-Mefraji told Anadolu Agency.

“The targets were entirely destroyed in the strikes,” he said.

The U.S.-led coalition has been launching airstrikes in support of an ongoing Iraqi offensive aimed at retaking Mosul from Daesh.

Meanwhile, the anti-terrorism command said Iraqi forces had shot down a Daesh drone in eastern Mosul.

Daesh captured Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, and large parts of the country’s northern and western regions in mid-2014.

Recent months have seen the Iraqi army and its allies retake much territory, especially on Mosul’s outskirts and in the western Anbar province.