Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Thursday that the capture of historical al-Nuri mosque¹ in the old city of Mosul marks the end of the self-styled Islamic State (IS) in Iraq.

 

伊拉克总理阿巴迪周四表示，对摩苏尔城努里清真寺的占领标志着国内自封伊斯兰国的终结。

 

"The blowing up of al-Nuri mosque and its al-Hadbaa minaret² by Daesh (IS group) and bringing them (mosque and minaret) back to the homeland today is a declaration of the end of the illegitimate Daesh state," Abadi said in a statement issued by his office.

 

"We will continue to chase Daesh members by killing³ and capturing them until the last one of them in Iraq," said Abadi, who is also the commander-in-chief of the Iraqi forces.

 

Abadi's comments came during his visit to the headquarters of the Joint⁴ Operations Command (JOC) in Mosul, where he met with the military commanders and discussed with them the developments of the battles to liberate⁵ the western side of Mosul.

 

Earlier in the day, a JOC statement said the Iraqi forces recaptured the area of al-Nuri mosque and its minaret as well as an adjacent neighborhood in the central part of the old city.

 

"The Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) forces drove out the extremist IS militants⁶ from al-Nuri mosque and its leaning al-Hadbaa minaret, in addition to the adjacent Sarijkhanah neighborhood in the heart of Mosul's old city center," said Abdul-Amir Yarallah of the JOC.

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