Military units resumed operations June 9, crossing the al-Hadr intersection toward the Qayyarah air base. The counterterrorism service, the 9th Armored Division in the Iraqi army and tribal mobilization managed to enter the air base from the Ramadniyat town to the west, which was also liberated along with other adjacent towns, namely the town of Soran.
With these developments, supplies to the areas of al-Shirqat, Hawija, the Great Zab and the rest of the areas south of Qayyarah have been completely cut out; the next step would be liberation.
The Qayyarah air base will be the key to moving toward Hawija, al-Shirqat and Mosul, just as the Speicher base was the key to Tikrit and the bases of Tariq and al-Mazraa to Fallujah. The air base lies at 12 kilometers from Qayyarah and 65 kilometers from the center of Mosul. It has an area of 24 kilometers and includes two runways of 3,500 meters each, in addition to aircraft caches, military infrastructure, sniper and protection towers, and a large camp.
The military units stationed south of Qayyarah district are expected to cross the river toward the district to liberate it, where they will join the troops that already entered the Qayyarah camp. Thus, Mosul has become surrounded from the north and east by peshmerga forces, from the west by peshmerga and some Yazidi forces, and from the south in the Qayyarah base.
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