Iraqi government forces have retaken full control of the Old City of Mosul from ISIL terrorists withdrawing the Takfiri group from their last bastion in the country.

Ayatollah Makarem-Shirazi issued a statement on the occasion of the fall of Daesh in Mosul and offered his congratulations on this great victory to the Iraqi people and to Ayatollah al-Sistani, who issued the jihad fatwa in 2014 which made this victory possible.