article_snippet.sent: Iraqi forces said Iraqi forces had fired an RPG at a destroyed truck with a large machine gun, killing three ISIS fighters.
article_snippet.sent: ISIS was ejected from the palaces compound in fierce fighting, Iraqi forces said, adding that there may still be booby traps.
article_snippet.sent: Federal police said Federal police dismantled hundreds of IEDs (improvised explosive devices) Wednesday.
article_snippet.sent: Iraqi forces continued to clean out pockets of resistance Wednesday, said al-Ghabban.
article_snippet.sent: The enemy has been defeated, and The enemy has lost all The enemy capabilities," al-Ghabban said.
article_snippet.sent: In the coming hours, the battle will end.
article_snippet.sent: Iraqi security said that the few ISIS militants left in the city are hiding inside houses hoping to escape in the dark.
article_snippet.sent: Brett McGurk, the U.S. deputy special presidential envoy to the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, tweeted that the Global Coalition's airstrikes had destroyed numerous ISIS shelters.
article_snippet.sent: the Global Coalition will continue to support courageous Iraqi forces operating under Iraqi command as Iraqi work to reclaim Iraqi territory from #ISIL," McGurk tweeted.
article_snippet.sent: A U.S. official said in February that up to 25,000 Iraqi troops plan to return to Mosul in April or May in an effort to retake the city.
highlights_snippet.sent: ISIS departs, leaving city strewn with booby traps, explosive-filled vehicles .
  