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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.

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

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.

"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.

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.

The US says it has detected no signs that North Korea is actively preparing to go on the offensive - there has been no large-scale mobilisation of forces, for example.

The conflict, which has affected more than 2.45 million people, has exacerbated the effects of last year's poor harvest: economic failure has provoked a seed crisis; insecurity has prevented planting, and mobilisation has forced overgrazing.