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The announcement came a week after the Iraqi government launched an operation to retake the city involving some 50,000 personnel from the army, air force, federal police, special forces and the Shia-led paramilitary Popular Mobilisation force.

Iraqi Shiite fighters from the Popular Mobilisation force keep position in the city of Baiji.

In the town of Shirqat, about 100 km (60 miles) south of Mosul, militants stormed a mosque and several houses early on Friday, a local police officer said, killing seven soldiers and fighters from the Shi'ite Popular Mobilisation force.

But the challenge will be for the popular mobilisation forces to avoid acts of retribution in areas cleared of Isis.

"That's a pitfall some popular mobilisation forces have jumped into in other areas of Iraq," he said.

An Iraqi-led coalition of security forces, Popular Mobilisation Forces fighters and peshmerga fighters are deployed in the Mosul offensive, which began in November 2016 to retake the city.

He also blames the media for reporting that the popular mobilisation forces were blowing up mosques when, he says, Isis fighters were responsible.

A spokesman for the Shia militias, known as the Hashid Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) forces, said thousands of fighters "started operations [on Saturday] morning to clean up the hotbeds of Daesh [Islamic State] in the western parts of Mosul".

"[Sunni fighters] know their own land, the properties and neighbours, so when popular mobilisation forces take Hawija they are going to need their help," said Karim al-Nouri, the spokesman for the popular mobilisation group of mainly Shia militias in Baghdad, and commander of the Shia Badr Organisation.

"There's no doubt that the combination of the popular mobilisation forces and the Iraqi security forces, they're going to run Isil out of Tikrit," said Gen Martin Dempsey, tchair of the US joint chiefs of staff, in a briefing to the Senate, according to Reuters.

The Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), a conglomerate of Shia militias set up in the aftermath of Isis's sweep into Iraq, also outlined its role in the battle to retake Mosul, saying it would set up blocking positions to the west of the city in order to confront Isis fighters attempting to flee into Syria.