ISIS transfers truckloads of medicines from Mosul to Syria

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The Islamic State (ISIS) has transferred two truckloads of medicines from hospitals in Mosul to Syria, a Kurdish official told Rudaw.

Saeed Mamuzini, an official of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) from Mosul, said the medicines were taken despite shortages in the city itself.

“Today, ISIS loaded two vehicles with medicines from Mosul hospitals to Syria, at a time when hospitals in Mosul are suffering from a lack of medicines,” he said.

His report comes amid warnings by Iraqi authorities that the fight to retake Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city which ISIS captured in June, could begin in the near future.

US military officials have said the battle for Mosul will happen only when enough of the Iraqi army, which collapsed when the militants swept across a third of Iraq during the summer, is up to the job of fighting the militants.