The Iraqi Ministry of Defense said in a statement, Sunday, that more than 170 members of ISIS organization were killed and a number of cars and vehicles were destroyed in air strikes launched by the army in the military industrial zone, in the district of Sharqat.
 
The statement pointed out that the security forces killed today a suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt tried to target civilians in the area of Al Jadidah in the right coast of the city of Mosul. The statement aslo indicated that the intelligence services continue to hunt down some of the militants who are still encamped in the areas located on the left and right of the city.
 
Major Shaker Jawdat, commander of the federal police, said that the Iraqi police have taken control of a factory for the manufacture of chemical explosives and the development of Grad missiles in the old city of Mosul. He added that these forces continued to clean the old city of the remnants of the organization and seized quantities chemicals used in the manufacture of improvised explosive devices.

On the other hand, sources said that Iraqi army downed an Islamic State-guided drone on the borders of Tal Afar town, located west of Mosul. " Army troops downed a developed IS-guided drone on the borders of Tal Afar," the source added. "The drone was equipped with surveillance devices," the source indicated.

Iraqi forces are preparing to launch a military campaign to restore Tal Afar district from the grip of ISIS, the last stronghold of the organization in the province of Nineveh. The preparations came after Iraqi forces regained control of the entire city of Mosul last month following a nine-month military campaign. Meanwhile, Mobilization Forces media reported, on Sunday, that the security forces in cooperation with their forces foiled an attempt of ISIS elements to infiltrate in north Salahuddin.

The parliamentary blocs agreed the parliamentary blocs in the Iraqi parliament on the amendment of the summer legislative elections and the upcoming local elections sparked controversy and prompted the emergence of protests.
 
The Iraqi parliament voted on the first of this month, 21 articles of the provincial elections law only, and adopted the method of St. Lego in the calculation of votes and the distribution of seats, and the amendment to become (1,9) instead of (1), which was approved in the previous local elections.
 
Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jubouri held a meeting with heads of political blocs to discuss the provincial elections law. The community agreed that the presidency of parliament will present the government’s proposal to vote, which provides for the system of counting votes 1.7.

According to this method will get the upper parties electoral votes, the proportion of seats in the largest is exceeded the small parties and that got a number of The votes granted by the right to get seats in the parliament and provincial councils and districts.
 
The new electoral law, will allow the largest blocs first winner of the elections to dominate the power and control of the Iraqi political scene in full, as confirmed in advance, the head of the Virtue Parliamentary bloc Deputy, Ammar To'ama.