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Isis has. 90% surrounded. we are told an assault will begin in hours ahead south of mosul. we know iraqi counterterrorism forces are within eye sight of mosul. you have peshmerga fighters to the north. what they are trying to do is bring everyone up closer to mosul and make it a more uniform surrounding before they go in the city it several. obviously intelligence is coming out because there was direct strikes yesterday in particular on three houses there that were housed by 20 or so isis militants who were actual experts in anti-tank and anti-weaponry. they were taken out. we are hearing a lo...

Surprising, we are not getting fatalities from kurdish forces. this has been a fierce fight at times. we are have seen wounded fighters brought back from the frontlines. it is not a one-way street that's for sure. we did hear this morning from iraqi government official of a town about 25 kilometers south of mosul that has been retaken by iraqi forces that 5,000 to 6,000 civilians were freed during that operation. a place called shiru. those are taken to camps to be processed. it is feared that the isis fighters are trying to blend in with those. and the city north of shiru, that is surrounded ...

Bloodier. almost 900 isis fighters have been killed. now the remaining are using civilians as human shields and retreated to the center of the city ready for advance of the coalition forces. we have michael holmes with the latest from erbil, iraq. michael. >> reporter: the push continue , john. i think there is a lot of activity in a couple of towns and villages outside of mosul. you have the peshmerga forces four kilometers outside of the mosul. there is an iraqi counterterrorism unit with eyes on mosul at the moment. you still have fighting going on in various places. we were in a town about...

New this morning, the battle to liberate mosul getting bloodier. 900 isis militants killed in the first 11 days of the mission. the few remaining are using human shields running to the center of the city. cnn's michael holmes is monitoring the offensive near mosul. he is inn erbil, i should say. a lot of advancing to the city center. >> reporter: still fighting to be done. john, that's right. those 900 dead isis fighters which is interesting and not

And artillery going in there. that fight continuing. the place where there are a number of foreign fighters is 90% surrounded. we hear an assault will happen there today. further south from there, some better news. iraqi forces have overtaken that place and freed 5,000 to 6,000 civilians from under isis rule. interesting tid bit, we are hearing a lot of iraqi military leadership in places outside of mosul are leaving and leaving fighters to their own device. one piece of bad news from inside mosul. we got word 20 men were rounded up today and taken to mosul university and were executed by elec...