page_title: Timeline of the Battle of Mosul (2016–17): Phase Three
section_title: June: Battle for Central Mosul
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of the Battle of Mosul (2016–17): Phase Three / June: Battle for Central Mosul
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the Battle of Mosul (2016–17) between February to July 2017.
context_section_description: 1 June
  Military sources reported on 1 June that more than 140 civilians had been killed during the previous six days, while trying to flee western Mosul, with 70 civilians reported to have died in an airstrike on 30 May. More than 750,000 had been displaced since the beginning of the battle, according to the UN. Iraqi Federal Police forces killed 12 militants in Zanjili district. Jawdat stated that they had surrounded all ISIL posts in Zanjili after seizing their communication devices and had shelled them with shoulder mounted rockets. Iraqi Federal Police forces were also reported to have pushed deep into the al-Zanjili and al-Shefaa districts (advancing 600 meters), and to be approaching the Bab Sinjar district. Seven civilians were reported to have been killed and 23 injured from ISIL shelling while fleeing Zanjili. Residents stated that due to the advances made by Iraqi forces, ISIL had begun moving out prisoners from the Medical City area in the northern part of the Shefaa district, and also ordered families in Zanjili to move to the Old City to prevent their escape. Meanwhile, Colonel Ryan Dillon, the spokesman for CJTF-OIR, said that ISIL militants controlled less than ten square kilometers of Mosul. United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad stated that 163 civilians were reported killed by the militants during the day.
  2 June
  A military statement announced on 2 June that the CTS had captured the Sihha district. Iraqi forces had also managed to capture parts of Zanjili and al-Shifaa. An officer from the Iraqi Federal Police said it killed an ISIL Hisbah (vigilantism) official nicknamed Abu Abdul-Rahman in western Mosul. He added that 500 militants still remained in the Old City. CTS spokesperson Sabah al-Nu'man said that 120 ISIL militants were killed in the operation to retake al-Sihha district from the ISIL. Lt. Dargam al-Haydari of Rapid Response Division told Anadolu Agency that 120 civilians had been killed in the previous two days by ISIL, some in executions and others in bomb attacks.
  3 June
  Iraqi forces were accused of using white phosphorus after a Kurdish TV station on 3 June captured an explosion with a bright white plume of smoke, typical of white phosphorus attacks. Iraqi officials announced that they would investigate the allegations. Lieutenant Ali al-Karbalai of the Rapid Response Forces told Anadolu Agency that 32 Iraqi soldiers had been killed in the previous day, including 12 by three bombers in al-Shifaa and thirteen by a series of car bombings in Zanjili. At least 230 civilians were reported to have been killed over the previous two days by militants, as well as Iraqi fighter jets in western Mosul, per a local source.
  5 June
  Jawdat said that the Federal Police had started attacking ISIL militants' defenses south of the Old City, killing seven members before besieging Bab al-Jadid. Capt. Abdul-Wadoud al-Anbari stated that the Rapid Response team had killed 21 ISIL members, including five snipers, in a "snap operation" in the al-Shefa district. A CTS commander said that only four square kilometers of the city remained under ISIL control. Iraqi forces were also reported to have advanced in Zanjili, capturing more than half of it.
  7 June
  On 7 June, Federal Police said that operations in Zanjili had left 34 militants dead, including ISIL leader Abi Baraa al-Tounsi, in charge of explosives manufacturing workshops in the Old City. Jawdat stated that Iraqi forces controlled 75 percent of the district. Kurdistan Region Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Directorate announced that Ahmed Hashim Hamid, known as Abu Hammam, the second man in ISIL's 'Sharia Diwan', was killed during the previous few days in western Mosul. Captain Sabhan Wali told Anadolu Agency that at least 11 Iraqi security personnel had been killed by an ISIL booby-trap in Zanjili.
  8–9 June
  The UN reported that more than 231 civilians had been killed by ISIL in the previous two weeks, including 204 in al-Shifaa over two days, while 50 to 80 civilians had been killed in an airstrike on Zanjili on 31 May. Ja
caption: Miliatry situation in Mosul as of 14 June 2017.