New York Times: Hungry, Thirsty and Bloodied in Battle to Retake Mosul From ISIS
ISTANBUL — After two months, the battle to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State has settled into a grinding war of attrition. The front lines have barely budged in weeks. Casualties of Iraqi security forces are so high that American commanders heading the United States-led air campaign worry that they are unsustainable. Civilians are being killed or injured by Islamic State snipers and growing numbers of suicide bombers.
As the world watches the horrors unfolding in Aleppo, Syria, where government forces and allied militias bombed civilians and carried out summary executions as they retook the last rebel-held areas, a different tragedy is transpiring in Mosul. Up to one million people are trapped inside the city, running low on food and drinking water and facing the worsening cruelty of Islamic State fighters.
“ISIS members have become like mad dogs, and every member has the power of immediate execution,” Abu Noor said by telephone from his home on the west side of Mosul, which government forces had not reached, referring to the terror group by one of its acronyms. “We live in constant fear and worry.”
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More News On The Battle For Mosul
Fight for a Mosul district shows Iraqis’ slow, painful slog -- Washington Post
ISIS Brags Of Killing 5,000 Iraqis, Destroying U.S. Tanks In Mosul -- Vocativ
U.S. forces in Iraq aid in the fight for Mosul -- L.A. Times
Anti-Islamic State Forces Concentrate On East Mosul -- Stratfor
In Mosul Fight, Winter Delays Slow Push to Tal Afar -- VOA
'Tragedy' inside Mosul as food runs out, the battle against Islamic State drags on -- Stars and Stripes
Two months into fight for Mosul, more than 100,000 flee the Iraqi city -- USA Today
Providing life-saving humanitarian aid to Mosul residents 'difficult' -- UPI
‘Hard to get inside Mosul, over 1mn people still trapped amid op’ – Oxfam representative to RT -- RT
Iraq is unable to treat the huge numbers of people wounded in Mosul -- Washington Post
Battle for Mosul: 'I miss everything there' -- Jabeen Bhatti, Al Jazeera
3 comments:
Everyone could see this happening
, iraq just does not have the mettle for this.
It unfortunatley needed to be a western taskforce with the iraqi military left as a peace keeping force.
Send in the Iranian forces.
They'll spill Afghan blood!
Khameini will fight to the last Afghan or until the oil $$$ runs out!
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