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Nearly 3 years after Da'ish took the city... #Iraq's flag has been raised above #Mosul's government buildings

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U.S. changes rules of engagement for Mosul fight in Iraq

By: Susannah George and Balint Szlanko, The Associated Press, February 24, 2017 (Photo Credit: Martyn Aim/Getty Images)
SOUTH OF MOSUL, Iraq — U.S. Army Lt. Col. James Browning juggled phone calls on an overstuffed sofa in a small village south of Mosul. His counterparts in the Iraqi army's 9th Division were pushing toward western Mosul, just a few miles away, and were coming under mortar fire from the Islamic State group as they moved on a power station.
 
Browning's counterpart, Brig. Gen. Walid Khalifa, called Browning on a simple Nokia phone to relay the approximate location of the mortar fire. Browning swapped phones to make another call.
 
"Can you tell them that (the 9th Division) is receiving fire?" he told his coalition colleagues at another forward base overseeing the operation. He asked them to pinpoint where the attack was coming from using coalition aerial surveillance and take it out.
 
Just a few months ago, Lt. Col. Browning's phone conversation would have been impossible. Rather than request assistance directly, his call would have likely been routed through a joint command center much farther from the battle zone.
 
In the fight against ISIS in Mosul, the United States has adjusted its rules of engagement as American and other international troops are now closer to front-line fighting than before.
 
During the push to take Mosul International Airport on Thursday, American and European advisers were embedded with forward Iraqi rapid response and special forces units.
 
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Members of the Iraqi security forces pose from atop a building, raising the victory gesture, in the village of al-Buseif, south of Mosul, during an offensive by Iraqi forces to retake the western side of the city from Islamic State group fighters on Feb. 22, 2017. Photo Credit: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP via Getty Images

 

Coalition officials say the changes are helping speed up Iraqi military gains, but they mark a steady escalation of U.S. involvement in Iraq that also reflects lingering shortcomings on the part of Iraq's armed forces and growing political and military pressure to finish the Mosul operation quickly.
 
"Usually I'm right by his side," Browning said between phone calls of the Iraqi officer. "When a threat comes in like this, we take it just as seriously as if we are under threat."
 
This closer relationship is new.
 
In the lead-up to the operation to retake Mosul, U.S. forces steadily increased their footprint in Iraq, increasing the number of troops in the country and moving outposts closer to front-line fighting. But the number of U.S. forces on or near the front lines remained relatively small.
 
Two months into the campaign to retake Iraq's second-largest city from ISIS control, Iraqi forces appeared bogged down by weeks of grueling urban combat. Some front lines went stagnant for weeks and Iraqi forces were suffering relatively high casualty rates under fierce ISIS counterattacks.
 
On Dec. 26, U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend issued a tactical directive sending more coalition troops away from the safety of their outposts, deeper into Mosul and closer to front lines to work side by side with their Iraqi counterparts. In January, the Pentagon first confirmed that U.S. forces were at times operating inside the city of Mosul.
 
As Iraqi special forces and rapid response units stormed Mosul's airport and the sprawling Ghazlani base on the southern edge of the city's west, coalition forces were embedded with forward units advising them on their plan of attack, according to two Iraqi officers overseeing the operation. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to talk to reporters.
 
Inside eastern Mosul, in the weeks leading up to that half of the city being declared "fully liberated," coalition troops became a more common sight on the city streets alongside Iraq's elite military units.
 
"It changed the relationship," Browning said of moving closer to the front and spending more time with his Iraqi counterparts. "It gives me a better understanding of how I can bring to bear the limited capabilities I have."

During his Thursday interview, Browning spoke from a modest forward Iraqi base in a small village south of Mosul where a living room in an abandoned home had been converted into an operations room.
 
Under the December directive and an additional directive issued a few weeks ago, Browning said advisers like him embedded at the brigade level are now able to directly deliver support such as airstrikes and artillery fire to the units they're partnered with.
 
Previously, such support "would have gone through a whole bureaucracy and through Baghdad," he said.
The spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition, Air Force Col. John Dorrian, confirmed to The Associated Press the rules of engagement in the fight against ISIS in Iraq were adjusted by the December directive, explaining that some coalition troops were given the "ability to call in airstrikes without going through a strike cell."
 
More coalition forces have been "empowered" to have the ability to call in strikes in the Mosul operation, Col. Dorrian told a Pentagon press briefing on Wednesday.
 
"This is something that maintains a very high level of precision, but it also increases the amount of responsiveness for the teams on the ground," he said.
 
Since the late December directive from Townsend, Iraqi forces have secured swifter territorial victories in the fight against ISIS. And in the first days of the renewed push on Mosul's western half, Iraqi forces have sustained relatively low numbers of casualties, compared to the early days of the fight inside Mosul from the eastern front.
 
"There was a lot of focus on a big training effort and I think what (the coalition) realized in Mosul is that (Iraqi security forces) needed more tactical support," said Nathaniel Rabkin, managing editor of Inside Iraqi Politics, a political risk assessment newsletter.
 
Iraqi and coalition forces are coming under increasing political and military pressure to wrap up the fight for Mosul quickly. Townsend has repeatedly said he wants the operations for both Mosul and Raqqa to "conclude" within the next six months.
 
The Iraqi and American leadership is concerned the humanitarian situation in western Mosul could quickly deteriorate, Rabkin said, and that infighting could break out within the "fragile" coalition of anti-ISIS forces, including Shiite militias, conventional Iraqi military forces and Kurdish fighters.
 
"You want to finish this while there is still good will," Rabkin said.
 
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Iraqi forces are advancing towards the center of Mosul

 

 

 

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Nineveh - Anatolia - Iraqi forces advanced on Saturday, in the military to liberate the western side of the connector operations, and is now close to the province of Nineveh building.

Said Colonel Ahmed al-Jubouri, the officer in Nineveh operations command said that "a distance of almost two kilometers separating the forces of the center conductor, specifically the province of Nineveh building."

"The federal police forces and rapid response (Ministry of Interior) continued their advance into the restoration of the west side of the city battles and gained control of the station in mobilizing Ghazlani Ghazlani neighborhood south of Mosul."

For his part, submitted Durgham al-Haidari, an officer in the squad rapid intervention, that "the forces of rapid reaction and federal police continued their advance today in the neighborhood Jawasaq, south of Mosul."

In a related context, al-Jubouri said, "The elements Daesh called through loudspeakers in mosques and forced residents to evacuate their homes in the oil district and the valley south of Mosul, stone, and go to other areas under its control, to coincide with the approach of the Iraqi forces toward these neighborhoods."

On February 19 th, it launched the second phase of the process of "coming, Nineveh," the military to regain control of the western side of Mosul, after it announced the Government of Haider al-Abadi, January 24 / December last second, the restoration of the eastern side of the city.

And the western side of Mosul, smaller than the eastern part, in terms of area (40 percent of the total area of Mosul), but the population density is greater; where the United Nations estimates the number of occupants by about 800 thousand people.

 

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of the Iraqi forces to regain the main power station in Mosul

Iraqi forces regain the main power station in Mosul

 

 
 
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Twilight News / said the military campaign to liberate Mosul, the commander of Iraqi forces regained control Saturday on the main power plant in the right side of the connector.

Lt. Gen. Abdul Amir Rasheed Aarallah explained in a statement, it responded to Twilight News, that "the pieces Armored Division liberated the ninth Yarmouk power station."

He added that Iraqi forces took control of the station and raised the Iraqi flag, pointing out that it the main station that feeds the entire city of Mosul.

 

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Iraqi forces close to the center conductor

 

Government troops advancing in several residential neighborhoods west of the city of Nineveh province, approaching the biggest exodus occurred since the fighting began.

 

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MOSUL, Iraq - backed by the United States within more areas in western Mosul, Iraqi forces have made and are close to the building of Nineveh province, after taking control of the city's airport from the hands of the organization of the Islamic state hackers built-up areas in the last militant stronghold in the country.

Troops moved in several southern neighborhoods of the buildings, residents and a population of more through about a thousand civilian front lines of fighting in the largest exodus since the fighting began a week ago in order to deal a fatal blow to the organization of the Islamic state.

The new offensive comes after the government forces and its allies ended cleanse eastern Mosul from the Islamic state last month trapped militants in the western part of the city, which is divided into two parts Tigris River.

Military leaders are expected to battle west of Mosul be harder than the east and partly due to the difficulty of tanks and armored vehicles moving through the narrow alleys of the old neighborhoods that dot the West.

But the Iraqi forces have made so far rapid progress on several fronts control of the northern Iraqi city airport Thursday, as troops planned to use it as a support and enable them to penetrate the berm length of three meters and a trench ordains organization Islamic state.

Advanced troops currently is less than three kilometers from the mosque, located in the old Mosul who declared Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, from the pulpit state "succession" in 2014 includes parts of Iraq and Syria, sparking international military campaign to defeat the organization.

And restore the city will spend probably the ambition of the militants for a state, but they are still in control of the territory in Syria and parts of northern and western Iraq, and they launched a guerrilla war in Iraq and planning attacks on the West.

Brigadier Hisham Abdul-Kadhim said the federal police force and unity especially in the Interior Ministry forces, known as REACT fully regained control of the amateur Jawasaq just north of the airport and began clearing houses in the neighborhood of aviation. He added that the Islamic state resisted by snipers and roadside bombs.

Separately, General Abdel-Wahab al-Saadi said a leader of the senior Iraqi counter-terrorism forces advancing on two fronts towards the valley of stone neighborhoods safe.

He said of the battle on a hill overlooking the cleansing operations are ongoing and that troops entered those areas.

Saadi said they destroyed a car bomb Islamic state on Saturday morning before attainable goal.

Civilians flee

And it participates in the campaign-strong force of about 100 thousand soldiers from the Iraqi forces and the popular crowd and fighters from the Sunni tribes. It supports an international coalition led by the United States, the process provides a vital air support as well as guidance and training on the ground.

The growing presence of Western advisers near the front lines of the fight to help coordinate air strikes and advise Iraqi forces, with the progress of the battle.

Provided about one thousand civilians, mostly women and children from areas in southwest Mosul Saturday and flown military trucks to the camps are located to the south.

The UN said up to 400 thousand civilians have been displaced by the new offensive amid shortages of food and fuel. And relief agencies warned Friday that the most dangerous in the attack phase is about to begin.

He said some of the escapees from a safe neighborhood that they originally of Hamam al-Alil, south of Mosul, but they are forced to move four months ago with the retreat of the Islamic state in the north to Mosul.

He said a civilian Mahmoud Nawaf claims that state regulation "began in bombed indiscriminately, which led us to hide in the bathroom. When the security forces came and called us we started to flee to."

The government urged residents to stay indoors as much as possible, as it did in eastern Mosul, which led to the escape of a number less than expected.

And it saw a reporter near the airport nine families living in a house serves a population of divorced beards tea to the security forces and some of them said that the organization of the Islamic state forced them to move from Samarra, about 250 kilometers south of Mosul.

He said Abu damn about (37 years), he was surprised by the speed of the expulsion of the militants. "We were hearing voices outside and after 15 minutes they had left."

A woman carrying a baby and she put it in the house before 22 days because of a very serious attempt to get to a hospital.

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Rudaw reporter and anchor Shifa Gardi killed by roadside bomb in Mosul

By Rudaw 30 minutes ago
Shifa gardi holds in her hands a wounded rabbit she rescued in Mosul while she was covering the offesnive in February. Photo:Rudaw
Shifa gardi holds in her hands a wounded rabbit she rescued in Mosul while she was covering the offesnive in February. Photo:Rudaw
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region –Rudaw reporter and anchor Shifa Gardi who was reporting on the heavy clashes between the advancing Iraqi forces and the ISIS militants was killed by  a roadside bomb  in Mosul on Saturday afternoon, and her cameraman Younis Mustafa injured in the same attack. 
 
A statement from Rudaw Media Network to be found below. 
 
She was presenting a daily special program on the Mosul offensive on Rudaw TV, and has recently started to cover the unfolding war from inside Mosul.
 
On February 21, while she was covering the war, she came across and eventually saved a wounded rabbit anxiously searching for refuge from the scourge of battle for the remaining right bank of ISIS’ stronghold in Mosul.
 
“I encountered an injured rabbit in the village of Albu Saif which was liberated yesterday evening,” Gardi told Rudaw as she returned to Rudaw’s newsroom,  “The rabbit is suffering from malnutrition which has caused visible damage to its face.”
 
 
“I brought it back with me. We will be treating the rabbit and then give it to an animal protection agency which is willing to look after it.”
 
She was reporting on the war on Sunday in different parts of western half of Mosul where Iraqi forces have launched a fresh offensive about a week ago to reclaim the last major stronghold of the ISIS group.
 
People have fled from ISIS by bus on the right side of the city, Gardi reported
 
“Five buses, fraught with people, including a majority of women and children have run away,” she said, “Their situation is miserable and have left everything,” said added aboard one such bus.
 

“There were only women and children with some men and juveniles. After they undergo investigations making sure that they have not helped ISIS militants, they will be allowed to take shelter at refugee camps.”

Shifa Zikri Ibrahim, also known as Shifa Gardi, was born a refugee in Iran on 1 July 1986. She was a graduate of media department from Salahaddin University in Erbil. She started her media career in 2006, and joined Rudaw Media Network since the beginning of its foundation. 

 
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Rudaw’s segment presenter, chief of output, and wartime journalist was killed on Saturday in a roadside bomb explosion in Mosul, while covering war developments of the renewed offensive to liberate the right bank of the last major urban stronghold still held by ISIS in Iraq. Her camera man was also wounded.
 
Shifa Gardi was one of Rudaw’s most daring journalists. She was known as a renowned skilled journalist in Kurdish news media, and brought outstanding coverage to Rudaw TV right from the beginning of its establishment.
 
She was a segment presenter in Rudaw, covering Focus Mosul program which she started to run when the operation to drive ISIS from Iraq was launched in October 2016.
 
Rudaw is deeply saddened to pronounce the death of its courageous wartime journalist and media star in the Kurdistan Region.
 

In the name of Rudaw Media Network, we convey our most sincere and most profound condolences to the family and friends of Ms Gardi and to our team worldwide, and we wish a speedy recovery to the wounded Rudaw journalist Yunis Mustafa. 

 

Falah Mustafa, head of Department of Foreign Relations of Kurdistan Regional Government described Gardi as a "role model to young women" in Kurdistan Region.

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