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Iraq
Two Elite Iraqi Units Link up for New Assult in Mosul
2017-01-01
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Two elite Iraqi units linked up in djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
on Saturday and will form a joint front to advance westward against the so-called ’Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIS) terrorist group, officers said.

The Rapid Response Division reached the northern edge of al-Intisar neighbourhood, while the Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) advanced to the southern side of the adjoining al-Quds area.

The two neighbourhoods are located on the eastern side of Mosul, where security forces have retaken multiple areas from ISIS, but the city’s west is still completely in terrorist hands.

"God willing, al-Intisar neighbourhood is completely liberated," Brigadier General Mahdi Abbas Abdullah, the commander of the Rapid Response Division’s 2nd Brigade said.

"We will become one front" and will advance "towards the river," he said, referring to the Tigris, which divides Mosul in two.

Lieutenant Colonel Athir al-Basri of Rapid Response also confirmed its forces and those from CTS had reached the same main street that divides al-Intisar and al-Quds.

Iraqi forces launched the massive operation to retake Mosul on October 17, eventually pushing into the city from the east.

On Wednesday, Iraqi forces announced the "second phase" of the battle for the eastern side of the city, marking the start of a new round of intensive fighting after progress had previously slowed to a crawl.

Posted by:Fred

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