MOSUL, Iraq, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Iraqi security forces and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters are about 3 miles or less away from the center of the city of Mosul in their fight with the Islamic State for control of territory, military officials.
Iraq's U.S.-trained Golden Division forces late Saturday sustained heavy losses in the village of Bazwaya, about 1 mile away from Mosul's Gogjali area. Fourteen Iraqi soldiers were killed during an exchange of gunfire with the Islamic State, which fired tracer rounds and used explosive weaponry.