(MENAFN) Iraqi forces battling the Islamic State group in Mosul on Monday retook an area where the Islamic State militants levelled one of the city's most well-known shrines in 2014, officials said.
"We retook control of Nabi Yunus area... raised the Iraqi flag above the tomb," Sabah al-Noman, spokesman for the Counter-Terrorism Service spearheading the Mosul offensive, told AFP.
He said two other neighbourhoods in eastern Mosul were also retaken from IS on Monday.
The Nabi Yunus shrine - which was built on the reputed burial site of a prophet known in the Koran as Yunus and in the Bible as Jonah - was a popular pilgrimage site.
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