Iraqi forces have taken complete control of eastern Mosul, 100 days after the start of their US-backed campaign to dislodge Islamic State militants from the city, officials say.
The deputy parliament speaker announced the capture of the east of the city, Islamic State's last major stronghold in Iraq, after a meeting with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Monday.
"We completed the total liberation of the left bank of Mosul and this is a gift to the Iraqi people," Sheikh Humam Hamoudi said in a statement.
The army on Sunday entered Rashidiya, the last district under the control of the militants on the east bank of the Tigris, military spokesman Brigadier-General Yahya Rasool said.
Mopping-up operations were still under way on Monday to flush out remaining militants in a pocket in this northeastern district.
A US-led coalition is providing air and ground support to the Iraqi forces.
A resident of Rashidiya said the army had stormed the area after air strikes destroyed a tank and car bomb the militants had been preparing to attack the advancing forces.
Iraqi forces launched a campaign on October 17 to retake Mosul from the hardline Sunni group, which captured the city in 2014, declaring from its Grand Mosque a "caliphate" that also spanned parts of Syria, ruled by its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The west side of Mosul could prove more complicated to take than the east as it is crisscrossed by streets too narrow for armoured vehicles.
The militants are expected to put up a tough fight as they are cornered in a shrinking area of the northern Iraqi city.
Mosul had a pre-war population of nearly two million, and about 750,000 people are estimated to live in western Mosul.
The battle for Mosul, involving 100,000 Iraqi troops, members of the Kurdish security forces and Shi'ite militiamen, is the biggest ground operation in Iraq since the US-led invasion of 2003.
Iraqi forces estimated the number of militants inside the city at 5000 to 6000 at the start of operations three months ago, and says 3300 have been killed in the fighting.
