A displaced family passes an Islamic State militant banner in western Mosul Saturday, May 13, 2017. (AP Photo)BAGHDAD -- A senior military commander says government forces have launched a new push to drive Islamic State group militants from four neighbourhoods in western Mosul. The operation to retake Mosul was launched in October and the city's east was declared liberated in January. Iraqi forces launched the operation to retake the west the following month. In recent weeks, US-backed Iraqi troops have slowly closed in on a small cluster of neighbourhoods in the city's west.

Source: Bangkok Post May 14, 2017 08:15 UTC