Two more Mosul districts recaptured from Daesh, Iraqi army says

The Iraqi military on Friday announced the recapture of two more districts of western Mosul from the Daesh terrorist group.

"Federal police units liberated the Al-Nabi Sheet and Akidat districts," General Abdul Amir Yarullah, who led the operation, said in a televised statement.

Odai Mohamed, an army officer, told Anadolu Agency that police forces had managed to evacuate hundreds of civilians from combat areas.

In mid-February, Iraqi forces -- backed by a U.S.-led air coalition -- began fresh operations aimed at dislodging Daesh terrorists from western Mosul.

The offensive comes as part of a wider campaign launched last October to retake the city, which Daesh overran -- along with much of northern and western Iraq -- in mid-2014.