Iraqi forces patrol close to the destroyed Al-Nuri Mosque of Mosul

An Iraqi army humvee patrolled al-Agidat neighbourhood of Mosul, Thursday, a few hundred metres from the rubble of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri that was reportedly destroyed by the so-called Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) on Wednesday.

Iraqi forces are on the brink of taking full control of Mosul, following a three month long operation inside the western sector of the provincial capital.