Monday, October 17, 2016

Meanwhile in Iraq

Iraqi government forces have launched a campaign to retake Mosul, the de-facto capital of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in Iraq.

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Mosul is Iraq's second largest city and the last urban centre still under ISIL control in Iraq after a series of government offensives to reverse the group's seizure of territory in 2014.

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"We are proud to stand with you in this historic operation," Brett McGurk, US envoy to the coalition against ISIL, said on Twitter at the start of the Mosul offensive.

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[T]he launch of the operation marks only the start of a battle that is likely to be the most difficult in the war against ISIL.

  alJazeera
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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