Iraqi forces said on Sunday they had recaptured the site of Nimrud, an ancient Assyrian city blown up by the Islamic State (ISIS) group, as they battled the jihadists south of Mosul.
The troops pushed towards Nimrud last week as they pressed an offensive begun on October 17 to recapture Iraq's second city, which the jihadists seized along with swathes of Iraq and Syria in mid-2014.
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