Story highlights Iraq kicks off effort to take remaining Mosul neighborhoods

Residents are fleeing western Mosul amid the fighting

(CNN) Iraqi forces have taken another step toward wresting Mosul from ISIS.

Security forces launched a large-scale military operation Saturday to take the remaining neighborhoods under ISIS control in western Mosul, the country's Joint Operation Command said.

Soldiers are storming the Shifa neighborhood and al Jamhouri Hospital. Iraqi counterterrorism forces are advancing on the al Saha al Awla neighborhood, the command said.

Advancing toward the Old City

Police, counterterrorism and army units started storming the al-Zanjili district and headed toward the Old City, said federal police head, Lt. Gen. Ra'ed Shaker Jawdat.

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