(MENAFN) Iraqi forces battled militants in west Mosul Sunday, aiming to build a floating bridge across the Tigris to establish an important supply route linked to the recaptured east bank.
A week into a major push on the western side of the city, where an estimated 2,000 holdout militants and 750,000 civilians are trapped, government forces made steady progress.
But after relatively easy gains on the city's outskirts, they encountered increasingly stiff resistance from the Islamic State group (IS) defending its emblematic stronghold.
"We had an important operation this morning to move towards the bridge," Colonel Falah al-Wabdan, from the interior ministry's Rapid Response units that have spearheaded the breach into west Mosul, told AFP in the Jawsaq neighbourhood.
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