{"id":23224,"date":"2017-02-27T11:54:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T11:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=23224"},"modified":"2017-02-27T11:54:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T11:54:29","slug":"almost-2400-iraqis-flee-mosul-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/almost-2400-iraqis-flee-mosul-24-hours.html","title":{"rendered":"Almost 2,400 Iraqis flee Mosul in 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:22px;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Almost 2,400 Iraqis flee Mosul in 24 hours<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>Almost 2,400 Iraqis flee Mosul in 24 hours:-<\/strong> In just 24 hours almost 2,400 Iraqi civilians fled western Mosul, where government forces are battling the Islamic state for control, officials said Sunday.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">The Minister of Displacement and Migration, Jasem Mohammed al-Jaff, said field operational personnel received the displaced people fleeing the fighting from about noon Saturday to about noon Sunday.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">They have been sheltered in al-Jada&#39;a refugee camp and al-Qayyara airport south of Mosul.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Al-Jaff added that the total number had reached 3,888 people since the launch of the military operation in western Mosul on February 19.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">On Saturday, Iraq&#39;s Federal Police tweeted that more than 50 civilians were killed or injured by landmines since Friday night as they fled a village about 9 miles west of Mosul.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Neighborhood &#39;liberated&#39; from ISIS<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">ISIS opened fire with mortars and small arms while civilians fled Ma&#39;moun, Major Mustafa Al-Iraqi of the Counterterrorism Service said Sunday.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">&quot;Counterterrorism forces liberated the al-Ma&#39;moun neighborhood and raise the Iraqi flag above the buildings,&quot; Lt. 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Abdul Amir Rasheed Yarallah, commander of Iraqi forces in Nineveh, said.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Meanwhile, Iraq&#39;s Federal Police defused a vehicle placed by ISIS with a large container of &quot;1,000 liters of poisonous gas&quot; near the Mosul airport, Raed Shaker Jawdat, commander of Iraqi federal police, said in a statement.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">In the al-Jawsaq neighborhood of Mosul, 25 internally displaced families were transported to refugee camps, Jawdat said.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:8px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Source:-&nbsp;http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2017\/02\/26\/middleeast\/iraqi-civilians-fleeing-mosul\/index.html<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/almost-2400-iraqis-flee-mosul-24-hours.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 2,400 Iraqis flee Mosul in 24 hours Almost 2,400 Iraqis flee Mosul in 24 hours:- In just 24 hours almost 2,400 Iraqi civilians fled western Mosul, where government forces are battling the Islamic state for control, officials said Sunday. 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