Military.com: US Ground Troops Now Likely Inside Mosul
U.S. troops serving as advisers were moving with elite Iraqi units that have advanced into the eastern sector of Mosul but were remaining behind the "forward line of troops," a military spokesman said Wednesday.
Air Force Col. John Dorrian, a spokesman for Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, would neither confirm nor deny that the U.S. advisers were now inside the northwestern Iraqi city.
He said the troops were accompanying Iraqi Counter Terror Service units who were experiencing "extremely tough fighting" in advancing about a third of the way into the eastern sector against Islamic State fighters.
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