South Kurdistan forces have retaken four Christian villages from the ISIS gangs on Tuesday.

Gangs now calling themselves the Islamic State were driven out of the Hasan al-Sham, Siudan, Bahra and Cisr al Hadr villages to the west of the capital Hewler city following heavy clashes.

The mentioned villages are of importance for being located in an area close to the towns of Bertela and Karakus populated by Christians. They are on the Nineveh plain extending from Hewler to Mosul.

Karakus, the largest Christian city in Iraq, and dozens of villages had formerly been evacuated due to ISIS savagery.

The Nineveh region and Mosul are being held by ISIS since early June since when thousands of people have been displaced and forced to take shelter in South Kurdistan after fleeing the savagery of the radical Islamist gangs perpetrating an ethnic and religious cleansing and systematic brutal massacres against peoples, women being in the first place.