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Iraqi forces reach Tigris river in Mosul in fight against Islamic State |
2017-01-10 |
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] running through the centre of town, marking a milestone in the nearly three-month-old offensive aimed at reclaiming the northern city from 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... Lion of Islams. Lt. Gen. Abdul-Amir Rasheed Yar Allah said special forces reached the river late Sunday and now control the eastern side of one of the city's five bridges, all of which have been disabled by U.S.-led Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the recent advances were "big achievements for all the factions of the Iraqi security forces." "Thank God, our forces are liberating neighborhood after neighborhood," he said Monday in a joint presser with his Jordanian counterpart in Baghdad. In djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Maj. Gen. Sami al-Aridi of the special forces told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that troops were battling IS in the Baladiyat and Sukar neighborhoods after driving the The Mosul offensive resumed last month after a two-week lull due to stiff IS resistance and bad weather. Since then, Iraqi forces have recaptured new areas in the city's eastern half after receiving enforcements. Mosul is Iraq's second largest city and the bully boy group's last major urban bastion in the country. Iraqi special forces have done most of the fighting within the city, while Iraqi troops have advanced on it from different sides. Kurdish forces and Shiite militias have driven IS from surrounding areas and sought to cut off Lion of Islam escape routes. Mosul fell to IS in the summer of 2014, when the |
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