By Serhad Shaker and Mohamed Walid
NINEVEH, Iraq (AA) - The Daesh terrorist group still holds several parts of eastern Mosul, an Iraqi military commander said Monday.
Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Army Brigadier-General Mozafar al-Ramdani said Iraqi forces had yet to "liberate" a handful of neighborhoods in the city’s eastern half.
"This represents a source of concern for those in liberated parts of the city," he said.
Mosul is currently the target of a wide-ranging Iraqi army offensive aimed at recapturing the city -- once considered the country’s second largest in terms of population -- from the terrorist group.
Late last month, the Iraqi army announced the "total liberation" of eastern Mosul after three months of fighting.
According to al-Ramdani, an anti-terrorism officer, top Iraqi security officials will soon meet to discuss the deteriorating security condition in a number of captured areas.
Army Brigadier-General Mothana al-Helali, for his part, said Daesh militants were now using parts of eastern Mosul still under their control to carry out car-bomb attacks on army-held parts of the city.
He added that two soldiers had been killed on Sunday in an attack carried out from Daesh-held parts of eastern Mosul.
Daesh overran the northern city of Mosul -- along with vast swathes of northern and western Iraq -- in 2014.