The CTS troops, backed by U.S.-led coalition aircraft, fought back an IS counter-attack during the day, leaving 70 IS militants killed and destroying two booby-trapped cars and one vehicle carrying heavy machine gun, according to the statement.
In northern front, the soldiers of the army's 16th Division repelled another attack by the extremist militants, leaving 25 militants killed and destroying three of their vehicles, the statement said.
The battles in Mosul came as the elite CTS forces, army troops and federal police launched on Thursday morning the second phase of a major offensive to free Mosul, and the troops made their new push into several neighborhoods in the eastern side of Mosul, locally known as the left bank of the Tigris which bisects the city.
For the fourth day of a new push to free the remaining neighborhoods of the eastern bank of the city, the troops are facing stiff resistance by the extremist militants.
The elite CTS forces have pushed in eastern Mosul since late October, but regular army and federal police forces tasked with advancing from north and south made slower advance and failed, so far, to reunite with the CTS troops inside the city.
Also in the day, dozens of IS militants attacked the federal police positions in the villages of Adhba and Bakhira, a few kilometers southwest of Mosul, but the troops repelled the attack, killing 25 of the attackers and destroying three explosive-laden cars, it added.
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