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

[tigergorzow]

SHOOTING THEMSELVES IN THE FOOT

ISIS fighters in Mosul deliberately injuring themselves with guns in desperate bid to avoid having to fight on the frontline

"Taking themselves out of the fight with 1 bullet, sick & tired bossman"

 

Iraqi and Kurdish forces continue to strengthen grip on city as terror group begins to crumble

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BY STEPHEN MOYES

10th January 2017, 2:59 pm

 

QUAKING ISIS fighters have been shooting themselves in the feet in a desperate bid to avoid fighting to defend Mosul.

Iraqi and Kurdish forces are strengthening their grip on the besieged city as some militants try to evacuate their families.

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Members of the Iraqi rapid response forces battle ISIS in Mosul, Iraq

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Iraqi troops make their way through eastern Mosul’s Wahda district

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Iraqi and Kurdish forces have been tightening their grip on Mosul

Others are deliberately injuring themselves to dodge fighting on the frontline.

But Mosul Eye said the terror group – also known as ISIL – was no longer treating injured jihadis.

Some are simply downing their weapons and fleeing the advancing forces.

The dissident group said in recent days 36 ISIS fighters had been left to perish and deserters were also being executed by fanatics if caught.

Tweeting from Mosul, Mosul Eye revealed: “One fighter known as Abu Bakr Al-Ansari swore in front of other fighters that he will not fight anymore and escaped afterwards.

“Another fighter by the name of Mohammed Ali Sultan, aka Abu Salam, shot himself in the foot to avoid fighting.

“Many ISIL fighters on the west bank [of the Tigris river that divides the city] start to smuggle their families to the east bank to the liberated areas. They are ready to escape as well.”

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2579822/isis-mosul-iraq-fighters-deliberately-injuring-themselves/

[yota691]

Top Iraqi Commander: Mosul Could Be Liberated in 3 Months

• By SUSANNAH GEORGE
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IRBIL, Iraq — Jan 11, 2017, 3:56 AM ET

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• A top Iraqi commander told The Associated Press that the operation to retake the city of Mosul from the Islamic State group could be complete in three months or less.

"It's possible" that Mosul will be liberated in in that time frame, Lt. Gen. Talib Shaghati said in an interview with the AP on Tuesday evening. However, he warned it is difficult to give an accurate estimate of how long the operation will take because it is not a conventional fight.

"There are many variables," he said, describing the combat as "guerrilla warfare."

The massive offensive involving some 30,000 Iraqi forces was launched in October and Iraqi leaders originally pledged the city would be retaken before 2017. However as the fight enters its fourth month, only about a third of the city is under government control.

Iraqi forces — largely led by special forces — have slowly advanced across Mosul's east. Fierce IS counterattacks have killed and injured hundreds of Iraqi troops and inflicted considerable damage to Iraqi military equipment. Repeatedly, after what appeared to be swift progress on the ground, Iraqi forces have been pushed back by IS counterattacks overnight.

However, Shaghati said the counterattacks — specifically car bombings — have slowed. He estimated his forces are seeing less than half the number of IS car bomb attacks on the front than they were faced with when the operation first began.

The U.S.-led coalition bombed the bridges spanning the Tigris river connecting Mosul's east and west in November in an effort to stop the flow of car bombs to Iraqi frontline positions in the eastern half of the city.

Shaghati, the top commander of Iraq's special forces and the Commander of Iraq's Joint Military Operation said that while many forces are participating in the Mosul fight, Iraq's special forces are the only troops with the skills to fight IS.

"The forces who have the skills to fight guerrilla warfare is only the CTS," he said using an alternative acronym for Iraq's special forces who are also called the counter-terrorism forces. "They have flexibility and can act quickly," he said.

For the Mosul operation to continue, Shaghati said Iraqi forces need to continue to receive support and equipment from the U.S-led coalition. Since the Mosul operation began, the coalition says its planes have launched thousands of airstrikes in and around Iraq's second largest city.

Although Shaghati said he believes that the beginning of the Mosul operation marked the end of IS in Iraq, the country will likely struggle with terrorist threats long after IS is defeated in Mosul.

When asked if he expected levels of support to change when U.S. president-elect Donald Trump takes office this month, he said: "We believe that the support of our American friends is continuing and ongoing."

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Associated Press writers Salar Salim and Mstyslav Chernov in Irbil, Iraq contributed to this report.

[vato96]

How does 3 districts take 3 months to liberate?

[Gypsygirl11]

4 minutes ago, vato96 said:

How does 3 districts take 3 months to liberate?

Who knows. Why does it take years to figure out the HCL?...who knows.

[yota691]

restore 90 percent of the two districts in Mosul and gunmen flee Daesh

 

     

 

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Twilight News / security source said the joint forces late on Wednesday retook control of the ninety percent of two districts in the southeast of the center of Mosul, gunmen Daesh flee across the Tigris River.

The source explained in a statement to Twilight News, that "the ninth Armored Division and the Federal Police so far managed to recover 90 percent of the revival of Sumer and Dmaz southeast of Mosul down to the 112 area."

He pointed out that "elements Daesh fleeing across the Tigris River from Jarmjh zone."

[yota691]

of a US analysis reviews the battle of Mosul and answer why prolonged?

 

    

 

 one hour ago

 

 

Twilight News / Foreign Affairs magazine , the US dealt with the military campaign waged by the Iraqi forces and the US - led coalition to restore the connector from the control of the organization of the Islamic state, and pointed out that the campaign began mid - October / October of last year, and wondered why take the battle of Mosul and more time than it was expected. 
She pointed out that the organization of the Islamic state had seized Mosul mid - 2014 , causing shock waves around the world, especially when it collapsed in front of four teams from the army and the Iraqi police forces in four provinces, making him the third - controlled area of Iraq. 
She added that the organization Daesh caused the displacement of millions of Iraqis and forced Christians to leave their places of residence, and he soon took over the third area of Syria also announced the Caliphate , which is the dream of every Muslim extremists. 
She said that about forty thousand fighters flocked to Iraq and Syria from more than one hundred countries around the world, to join the ranks of the organization of the Islamic state, where it produces no less than a hundred video promo per month and broadcast across tens of thousands of accounts on social media. 
And the return of the Battle of Mosul, only Foreign Affairs pointed out that the battle enters its fourth month, and it is expected to drag on and continue to the other months is what was expected of her when she was launched. 
And attributed to the US general -sbak that led US forces in Iraq and rejected anonymity praise for the performance of the Iraqi counter - terrorism forces in the fight against the state regulation in Mosul fighters, and added that the battles within the big cities require a lot of efforts to avoid killing civilians, infrastructure destroyed . 
, However Foreign Affairs saying that the true picture of the battle of Mosul different, made itclear that the battle is long overdue based on false and misleading strategy, and they relied on false assumptions is that the state regulation quickly weaken and retreat after what he suffered defeats in Iraq and Syria over the past year. 
She added that the organization of the Islamic state -aly contrary Assassin totally - furiously and follow the tactics resulted in burdening the Iraqi forces heavy losses, and pointed out that the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al - Abadi order a re - evaluation of the campaign plan to organize the state, after exposure towards a hundred Iraqi soldiers killed or injured in the battle of Mosul hospital early December / December. 
Foreign Affairs pointed out that he believed that US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter discussed with Haider Abadi , a matter of changing the military plans for the campaign on the connector, and that during his visit to Baghdad last year. 
She added that the organization of the Islamic state publishes snipers on rooftops and that has trained fighters and possessed an arsenal of short - range missiles each plant locally, and it uses car bombs in the attack strategy, it depends on hundreds of foreign suicide bombers. 
She noted that the Iraqi government has asked residents to stay in Mosul, so as to avoid a huge increase in the numbers of refugees, but the state organization uses people as human shields, and that more than a thousand civilians died during the battle. 
It reported that the Iraqi government is also expected to state regulation fighters running away, which is why Mosul did not surround only after the battle began, and they surrounded the city in order to cut off supplies coming from the city of Tal Afar , west of Mosul lines. 
She said that the organization of the Islamic state 's supply lines between Tal Afar and Mosul still exist despite all the efforts of the Iraqi military, and the Iraqi forces are concentrated attack on the eastern side of Mosul, while exposed to counter attacks from state regulation from the western regions. 
Foreign Affairs also spoke about the existence of problems in the leadership of the Iraqi forces, and pointed out that the commander in charge of the campaign of Mosul , Major General Najim al - Jubouri had never graduated from the Staff College and has never even took over as commander of the battalion. 
 She added that the campaign against Mosul is composed of more than one hundred thousand fighters, and that the easy part of them only received previous training in urban warfare battles, and that only half the number deployed in the first two months and a half from the battle, and four hundred of them died in the first fifty days of fighting. 
She pointed out that many Iraqis believe that the choice of the battle to regain the time of Mosul was part of the US outgoing President Barack Obama 's administration, so as to strengthen the position of Democratic candidate Hillarious Clinton in the US presidential election. 
She concluded by saying that he was expected to recover Mosul by the end of 2016, but in 2017 began and no one knows when the battle will continue to sap much of Iraq 's resources and limit expires reconstruction and reconciliation in the country 's opportunities.

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CHIEF RUNNING BULL WOULD HAVE HANDLED THIS IN LESS THAN  A DAY....JUST ASK GENERAL CUSTARD.

 

OBOMMA AND Hillarious IS THE J.V. TEAM

[Bama Girl]

1 hour ago, vato96 said:

How does 3 districts take 3 months to liberate?

I watched a segment on Fox News a month or so ago which addressed the Mosul issue. The Iraqi gentleman (can't recall his name nor his position) showed a map of western Mosul and was explaining why it would take longer to liberate western Mosul than eastern Mosul. The buildings and streets are laid out in a more complicated way. It is difficult to put into words what he showed on the map,  but bottom line, there are more hiding places. Hope this helps answer your question just a bit. 

[yota691]

Battle of Mosul: Iraq gaining momentum against al «Islamic state»

January 12, 2017 in the media center , articles  on the battle of Mosul: Iraq gaining momentum against al «Islamic state» closed

Is the Iraqi army announce that his forces reached the Tigris River for the first time during the battle to regain Mosul is an important moment in the ongoing campaign since 122 a week for the Liberation of the last great bastion of the organization «Islamic state» for ( «Daesh») in the country. The Lt. Gen. Abdul Amir al - Lami, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iraqi army operations, in a January 8 that "Iraqi security forces" captured the eastern edge of one of the bridges that connect both sides of the city.

It seems that it has been established stronghold in the municipalities located on the bank of the river , which includes many of the newest municipalities in the province of Mosul offices and "Peace Hospital" , which was the scene of the area for a bold attempt earlier taken by the Iraqi forces claw corridor up to the river. And north of the municipal area, the Second Brigade made of the "Iraqi Special Operations Forces" parallel progress towards the river in the old Muthanna neighborhood and monuments in Nineveh. It was also gains in the north - east of Mosul, where he tried the first and third brigades of the "Iraqi Special Operations Forces" Restore "Canadian" military base and neighborhoods adjacent to high - income.

Renewed effort

Make broad progress indicates the range to the resistance organization «Islamic state» show "signs of collapse" in the east of Mosul, as mentioned private international alliance against al «Daesh» Brett Macgork US president 's envoy in the tweet him on the site "Twitter" on 88 January /January. One of the factors causing clearly the concentration of all the "Iraqi security forces" available east of Mosul, after stopping all supporting attacks north and south west of the city. During the two-week break, it was moved elements "for the second rapid reaction brigade" and the Fifth Brigade of the "Federal Police" from areas located southwest of Mosul to new locations east of the Tigris. These forces have been reactivated attempts to "Iraqi security forces" to advance towards municipalities and bridges inside the city when the resumption of the attack on 29 December / December .

The catalyst role of the Alliance in another redraw the Iraqi battle plan, and to promote greater coordination between the Iraqi major centers and the provision of artillery and air strikes more effective. And requests enhance the firepower deployment defender "howitzer" US at the eastern border of the city of Mosul. It was to involve more than 400 component of the special coalition forces in the battle in the heart of the city counselors and coordinators for strikes, often within the scope of the attacks carried out by al «Islamic state».

Uphill battle to come

Operations will provide the steady progress eastern Mosul, a glimmer of light hello done at a time when the intervention uphill battle to regain the city its second week ten. Iraqi forces now have become present in 35 alive from the east of Mosul neighborhoods alive 47 guestrooms, including the largest departments, the most populous in the east side. Uphill battle waiting for Iraqi forces to restore the University of Mosul base "Canadian" military incidents eastern Mosul may be.

However, it did not edit any of the large and densely populated western Mosul, 29 dead guestrooms neighborhoods. Unless collapses organization «Islamic state» unexpectedly and fast, it will be necessary to attack the west side of the city in a separate military operation is launched a few weeks later arranged during which "the Iraqi security forces' ranks and put a new plan. This suggests that they may be cleansed in the east of Mosul in January 2017 or early February, while editing western Mosul, may extend to the second quarter of 2017.

Reduce costs

Serial cleansing multiple neighborhoods of the city of Mosul in reducing the period during which civilians are exposed to heavy fighting in individual neighborhoods may succeed. So far, the battle was caused to the infrastructure in Mosul , much less than those resulting from previous battles of attrition damage , as happened in Ramadi , in Iraq or in Kobani in Syria , despite the fact that the daily damage to neighborhoods has increased since the resumption of the attack. Alliance in particular has sought to reduce costs and the time required to rebuild the bridges, where the mayors are selectively destroyed the poles and exits of the roads that are easily replaced to prevent the organization «Islamic state» from the use of bridges, but he was keen to be a rapid repair possible after the battle ends.

 He estimated " the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs , " the number of internally displaced persons from the city of Mosul itself by about 42 thousand in early November, about 4-66% of the population of Mosul , remaining far from a large number of estimates that preceded the battle and the lowest. The flow of internally displaced persons from the city since December 29 / December , according to the "United Nations Office" has increased, including 15,942 during the eight days that followed the resumption of the attack. But " the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs , " also announced that the stable security in the liberated areas has allowed the return of 14 thousand IDPs to the city of Mosul.

Attack "unwelcome"

Away from most media coverage, the liberated areas in eastern Mosul, witnessing a gradual return to maintain security and running water networks and power generation operating on diesel in the neighborhoods. And most importantly, that "the Iraqi security forces," the cross-sectarian and multi-ethnic located in the city of Mosul has received widespread acceptance of the local population of Sunni Arabs, who are grateful large humane treatment received by the population and the sacrifices of the security forces, which were submitted to the city of Mosul, the Sunni remote to the north of the country to liberate it from the grip of the organization «Islamic state.»

And will be responded organization «Islamic state» the most likely about the loss of eastern Mosul , in the efforts to intensify the bombings that target civilians in Baghdad, where he led seven bombings during the first eight days of 2017 to the fall of 87 people and injured at least 231 people. The Iraqi government and the coalition is currently building defenses around Baghdad by installing sensors on blimps tied , and the launch of obstructive in the rural outskirts of the city of security operations to dismantle the cells that the bombings.

 Michael Knights

The Washington Institute

[tigergorzow]

On ‎1‎/‎8‎/‎2017 at 0:39 PM, HowieC said:

In the last Major General Fadel Barwari added that "We have big surprises we will announce in the next few days, and this happy surprises for all Iraqis, and especially to the people of Mosul.

HowieC, Yota, LGD, DV, Let's hope the next few days will release the "BIG SURPRISE" as stated by the General for all Iraqis, and especially to the people of Mosul.    Something is going on that we do not have privy to in regards to the Liberation of Mosul IMHO.

Always Keeping The Faith!!

GO RV!!

[Wiljor]

4 minutes ago, tigergorzow said:

HowieC, Yota, LGD, DV, Let's hope the next few days will release the "BIG SURPRISE" as stated by the General for all Iraqis, and especially to the people of Mosul.    Something is going on that we do not have privy to in regards to the Liberation of Mosul IMHO.

Always Keeping The Faith!!

GO RV!!

tiger, appreciate your feed back bro and I concur, the liberation of Mosul is a key element to other major issues falling into place. Perhaps the "BIG SURPRISE" is just around the corner 

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US Commandos Take Out ISIS Leader in Hunt for Top Terrorists as Obama Prepares to Leave Office

By JAMES GORDON MEEK

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Jan 10, 2017, 4:05 PM ET

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An elite team of American commandos killed a senior leader of ISIS this week, giving President Obama another name to scratch off his list of top terrorists in the final days of his presidency.

Abu Anas al-Iraqi, said to be the finance chief of ISIS, was killed Sunday in an operation in Syria by an intelligence-driven U.S. special operations unit known as the Expeditionary Targeting Force, a counterterrorism official told ABC News.

"He was a top ISIS emir," the counterterrorism official said, using the Arabic term for "prince" or "leader" that is commonly adopted by jihadis.

The U.S. hopes to also kill top ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed caliph, or leader, of all Muslims, who is believed to be hunkered down in Iraq's second-largest city, Mosul. Iraqi government forces and a U.S.-led coalition mounted a stalled offensive to retake the city in recent months.

The official said that one other ISIS fighter was killed and that the U.S. team — under orders of the Joint Special Operations Command — conducted "sensitive site exploitation." Which means it looked for documents and electronic devices with intelligence value. No American operators were wounded.

The U.S. government has not publicly confirmed the terrorists' deaths.

At the Pentagon, spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis confirmed on Monday only that there was a "routine" U.S. special operations raid by the ETF in Dayr az Zawr, Syria, the day before and that it was "successful."

He said the operation was not intended to rescue hostages and no one was captured or detained, as has been reported on social media.

Al-Iraqi is not a well-known figure.

His name occasionally surfaced in social media as well as in captured ISIS documents referring to him as a leader, and intelligence indicated he was a member of ISIS' ruling shura council.

As chief accountant, he oversaw the group's war chest, derived from extortion, kidnapping and ransom, taxation in occupied territories, oil and gas sales and illicit trafficking, officials said.

The death of an ISIS operative of the same name was reported two years ago, but, like many other ISIS figures falsely reported killed, al-Iraqi — a nom de guerre — apparently remained alive and in the fight until this week.

The CIA declined comment today on his killing.

Al-Iraqi was killed shortly after U.S. special operations helicopters began trailing a single vehicle outside Dayr az Zawr and were fired on by the occupants of the vehicle, a third official told ABC News.

The helicopters fired back, disabling the vehicle and killing all the occupants.

The Obama administration has racked up a number of kills as he makes way for President-elect Trump to assume the responsibility of keeping Americans safe from terrorist attacks.

The dead include Hajji Mutazz, a deputy to al-Baghdadi; Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, ISIS' spokesman and external operations chief; and Abu Mohammed Furqan, an Iraqi member of the shura council who with al-Adnani oversaw the group's sophisticated, narrative-driven propaganda, which has shocked the world and drawn in tens of thousands of foreign volunteers since 2014.

The top Qaeda operative in Afghanistan, Nayef Salam Muhammad Ujaym al-Hababi, was killed in a U.S. airstrike last fall, and the top Taliban emir, Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, was killed in Pakistan by an American drone in May.

ABC News' Paul Blake contributed to this report.

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Economist: Abadi failed to break the political control of the sectarian parties

 translation / long-Presse 
 

There are political challenges facing Prime Minister Haider al - Abadi accompany the course of military operations for the liberation of Mosul , which seems that it will take longer than the deadline set by the leadership, according to a report published by the British magazine The Economist. 
The magazine says that he initially said that the battle of Mosul will be resolved by the New Year 's holiday, but now the Prime Minister Haider al - Abadi is expected that the battle to liberate Mosul for another three months continue. 
The attribution of more US special operations forces, Abadi launched the second phase of the battle to liberate Mosul , dominating the industrial zone of the city, where there has been some progress at this stage. 
But what is controlled by Iraqi soldiers during the day often it is retrieved by militants from Daesh by darkness, where it will help them in the underground network that dug under the front lines. 
On the other side of the security situation in Iraq, the organization also Daesh continuous implementation of the brutal style suicide attacks in Shiite areas of Baghdad. In Anbar and Salahuddin organization began a review of his muscles , too , after a period of liberalization regions. 
On this January 2 militants took control regulation on a police station in Samarra for several hours, and were able to cut the road to Baghdad to Mosul briefly cut power to Diyala. 
Prolonged military campaign Bttiyatha withstand the challenges facing political and Colva Abadi , who has sought from the outset , because out of the same administrator AC template to put the victorious commander of a strenuous military responsibilities. 
While lurks competitors Balebadi chance it happens in an emergency problem to swoop in. Among those competitors is his predecessor , Nouri al - Maliki, as well as factions of the popular crowd , which was invited to participate in the fighting due to lack of many seasoned fighters in the ranks of the army and the Iraqi police. He welcomed the Americans until the military leaders to tip these alternative forces to support the troops in battle. 
It seems that al - Maliki is eager to build a military force along the lines of Iran 's Revolutionary Guards , who owns a real power in Iran. During his tenure as prime minister, for the period from 2006 to 2014, al - Maliki was able to build networks still provide him with power and influence so far. This network extends from the judiciary to the civil institutions and the parliament, and there are a lot of people with senior positions in Iraq carrying him credit for the arrival of the positions they occupy. 
The last work by al - Maliki as prime minister is seeking to form a popular crowd forces. While he was, trying, for many months furrow - Abbadi accused the authority of his senior ministers of failing, recently taken by making support for PDF crowd turn another. 
On November 26 last, vote for members of parliament on the popular crowd, which includes more than 110 thousand elements Forces Act, pay their salaries from the government, and is subject to the control of Parliament. 
In contrast Abadi began using the new popular crowd courting Sunni tribes who previously renounced al - Maliki when he was prime minister Act. The Abadi return of thousands of officers and soldiers of the former Iraqi army from the Sunnis and the buyout of government salaries under the leadership of the former governor of Mosul Liberation of Iraq. 
On the other hand, has been quietly, dropped terrorism charges filed against the Sunni politician , backed by Gulf Khamis dagger. And the blessing of al - Abadi also headed by Ammar al - Hakim, who heads the largest Shiite bloc in the country, to Amman and Tehran to negotiate the steps to achieve national reconciliation include amnesty for exiled Sunni figures long ago. 
The hope lies in that if the granting of these promises in the future of Iraq, the former Baathists and other Sunni Islamist rest of the characters would be involved in efforts to expel troops from Iraq Daesh lineup. 
He says a diplomat in Baghdad said that "some Shiite figures have begun to realize that if they were not able to gain the trust of the Sunnis and the Kurds, what remains of Iraq will be in danger of becoming the state and the province of another Iran." 
The main Abadi is a failure of political failure. He was unable to break the control of the sectarian parties, including his own party, the treasury of Iraq 's resources. Political parties in his booth is still deducted large amounts of government contracts, and collect money from aliens workers in laboratories and institutions of dead salaries unproductive. 
Instead of prosecuting political corruption has squandered Abadi support granted him of demonstrators against corruption as well as the religious authority and deduct the salaries of employees and raising the tax rate. 
But despite all these setbacks , Abadi was able to retrieve most of the territory it lost during the reign of his predecessor , al - Maliki. Within also renewed US military support and saw the stage to increase the number of US troops quadrupled their number over the past year. There became an air force depends upon the special operations squad proved its capabilities in the fighting, and the Iraqi army for the first time in the era of al - Abadi in a decade have begun to fight side by side with the Kurdish Peshmerga forces. 
As well as with regard to aspects of social life in the capital , Baghdad has begun to return to normal stability , which saw some areas and streets raising the concrete barriers and the elimination of some of the checkpoints. But the taint of the Iraqi economy now drop oil prices and heavy spending on the management of the ongoing battles against the organization in Mosul crisis. 
But nonetheless, the Iraqi economy , which fell by 5% in 2016 and 14% in the previous year is expected to rise as the IMF forecast by 5% this year. And that US companies that previously left the country because of the economic problems which have begun to re - refer to it again , such as General Electric Company. 
Even in Parliament, there is an unusual alliances began to emerge fleeting sectarian lines. The Kurds, Sunni Arabs and Shiites no longer vote for a unified blocks. The head of parliament Saleem al - Jubouri, a Sunni of the Islamic Party, talks about the formation of a transient Party of sectarianism in the elections of 2018 in which voters seeking voices from the Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq. 
Despite all the failures, Iraq is still considered the most democratic, multi - party countries in the Arab world, have convinced the majority of the Iraqi people that they have a common future in this country.

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Joint forces free and roll into 10 new neighborhoods east of Mosul

 Nineveh / term 
 

Declared war media cell, Wednesday, edit sugar neighborhoods and April 7 and finance, as well as incursions into other neighborhoods, asserting that security forces killed 347 element of Daesh breakers in various operations. And witnessed military operations in the eastern side of the connector remarkable progress since it resumed earlier this month after weeks of deadlock. 
The increased momentum of the Iraqi forces, tip the four thousand fighters from the federal police and rapid response as well as anti - terrorism forces, to accelerate Tharirohia eastern Mosul , including the districts of municipalities and peace, and led to the arrival of troops for the first time to the bank of the Tigris River , and it approached a bridge League West right. 
The military media cell, in a statement received (range) yesterday, he said that " the army pieces began to advance towards humpback neighborhoods April 7 and was able to cleanse the northern part of the neighborhood April 7 and incursions into humpback neighborhood , " asserting that the troops " were able to kill 53 terrorists and destroy 7 wheels bomb and command and control center and drop the plane march attribution flight international coalition. " 
She said the media cell that "anti - terrorism forces started to progress in two directions from the eastern axis of the coast of the left, so was able to pieces the northern direction of liberalization shy of sugar and April 7 and raising the Iraqi flag over Mbanehma, destroying three wheels bomb killed more than 40 terrorists attribution flight international coalition." 
She cell that " the pieces that have moved south direction liberalized financial district and raised the Iraqi flag over the buildings and were able to destroy two wheels and drop bombs march aircraft and killed 73 terrorists and destroyed three motorcycles." 
He pointed out the cell a statement that " the federal police forces and pieces Armored Division ninth pushed into the revival of the peace, Palestine and Sumer and East Jarmjh and Alsaheron and gained control of a number of areas and buildings and raising the Iraqi flag over the buildings , " indicating that " the operation that killed 141 terrorists and destroyed two vehicles carrying terrorists the wheel of bomb and mortar detachment and 7 PKC machine guns and ammunition amassed to grab a number of weapons and ammunition. " 
The media cell that " the federal police forces managed to inflict casualties of the terrorists during a raid on the areas located operations areas Alzacharoutih, white and camphor and killed more than 20 terrorists." 
Cell that " the flight of the international coalition revealed carried out 11 sorties flown combat and destroyed a number of terrorists mechanisms and killed another number of them and secure the 10 reconnaissance flights of combat march and two sorties Balsmteat , " and noted that " the Iraqi air force carried out five sorties tactical resulted in killing a number of terrorists and destroy a number of equipment as well as the implementation of Talaata reconnaissance missions and 5 so that the transfer was able to destroy the training camp and killed 20 terrorists in Badush and destroy plant booby - trapping and weapons stores in the same area. " 
According to a statement the media cell " The army aviation carried out 16 sorties mobilizing to assign the left coast and the forces of the popular crowd and managed to kill many of the terrorists and the destruction of two wheels carrying terrorists and 3 subunits of PKC and gun S BG 9 and Cannon 23 mm tank booby - trapped." 
Pedroh, a security source in Nineveh province, on Wednesday, that the sixteen pieces of the band, docked with the anti - terrorism in the northern axis of the city of Mosul. 
The source said in an interview with (long - Presse), that " the formations of sixteen band, managed to docking Baktat anti - terrorism forces," adding that " the confluence of forces will accelerate the liberalization process of revival: humpback and the Arab League in the coming days." 
In addition, the federal police command announced, receiving thousand displaced families from neighborhoods Furqan, officers and financial in Mosul. 
He said the federal police captain Raed Shakir Jawdat, in a statement received (range) a copy of it yesterday, " The federal police force had seen 1,000 displaced families from the neighborhoods of Al - Furqan, officers and financial , " stressing move the displaced to Khazar camp.

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Grande: Half the victims of the battle of Mosul civilians and more than "750" thousand people are stuck far west of the city (Details)

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UN Resident Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs in Iraq , Lise Grande said on Thursday that half of the victims of the battle of Mosul civilians , and more than seven hundred and fifty thousand people are stuck now west of the city. 

UN official warned in a press conference held by videoconference from Iraq with reporters at UN headquarters in New York from the dangerous military operation humanitarian consequences on the civilian west of Mosul , saying the United Nations was considering several options for the delivery of aid , including the air drop.

 

She Grande, that fifty-three percent of the total ongoing military operation victims are military and Forty-seven percent of them civilians.

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Iraq, January 12, 2017 

Isil militants have cut off the water supply to thousands of residents in liberated areas of Mosul, as Iraqi troops continue to make gains against the weakened fighters. The jihadists, who maintain control of the city’s water stations, turned off the supply to more than 30 neighbourhoods yesterday.

“There are 10 other districts where the water supply continues, but intermittently,” Hossam al-Abbar, a municipal official from the Nineveh province, confirmed.

He said Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) fighters had been given specific orders to attack areas recaptured by the army.

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http://iraqdailyjournal.com/story-z14604836

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The Major Abdalkareem Khalaf, a military export confirmed to PUKmedia on Thursday, 12 of Jan. that the terrorists of Islamic State had declared their withdrawal from the eastern side of Mosul, their last major stronghold in Iraq.
Mr. Khalaf stressed that the Iraqi forces shall liberate the eastern side of Mosul within two days, "ISIS terrorists had transported their weapons and equipments to the western dire to increase their enforcements" he added.
Islamic State's loss of Mosul would probably spell the end of the Iraqi part of its self-styled caliphate, which straddles Iraq and Syria.
But advances inside Mosul slowed in November and December as troops engaged in tough urban warfare with the jihadists, who are thought to number several thousand in the city.
The ISIS fought back with suicide car bombs and snipers hidden among the civilian population. They have also recently blown up sections of two bridges crossing the Tigris to try to slow the Iraqi advance.
Rawaa Samer 
PUKmedia

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WHAT????

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Iraqi forces stormed the University of Mosul and controls a number of its buildings

By Roudao 3 hours ago

Iraqi forces stormed the University of Mosul and controls the number of their buildings - AFP

Roudao - Arbil , 

said the commander of operations are coming , O Nineveh, Lt. Gen. Abdul - Amir Rashid Allah Yar, Friday, for the storming of the fight against terrorism to the University of Mosul and the restoration of a number of buildings the university system. 

He said Allah Yar, said that "Iraqi forces are continuing the progress to achieve its goals and the liberation of the entire university Daesh terrorist gangs." 

For its part , the media revealed military cell, Friday, for the feet of the organization "Daesh" to blow up all the bridges over the Tigris River in downtown Mosul during the progress of the security forces towards the right side, noting that the organization aims thereby impede the progress of troops toward the right side. 

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My fight against terrorism: the liberation of more than 50% of the regions of the left coast to the city of Mosul

By Ziad al - Haidari two hours ago

My fight against terrorism: the liberation of more than 50% of the regions of the left coast to the city of Mosul

Roudao - Arbil , 

spokesman for the anti - terrorism device, Sabah al - Numan, on Friday, that has been edited more than 50% of the left coast of the city of Mosul areas, adding that the Iraqi forces continue to progress for the Liberation of new neighborhoods. 

He said al - Numan, in a statement to the media network Roudao "There is significant progress for our troops in many neighborhoods of the city of Mosul continues yet to recover from Daesh gangs." 

He added, "The anti - terror apparatus forces, has freed more than 50% of the left coast of the city of Mosul areas, was the elimination of more than 400 armed Daesh during the ongoing battles." 

This declared the fight against terrorism in Iraq leaders, imposed almost complete control on the left coast of the Tigris River areas, and reduce the movement of elements Daesh, while regulation maneuvering troops march aircraft and mortar shells east of Mosul and in the southeast as well. 

After losing organization Daesh military capabilities to impede the progress of the Iraqi forces on the left coast elements decided to equip defensive lines on the West second from the Tigris River to attack the joint forces with mortars and aircraft march. 

He noted the focus of counter - terrorism team captain Abdul Wahab al - Saadi, to tighten control of combat units almost entirely on the left coast , which was left inside , only a few elements of the organization divided between snipers and suicide bombers. 

He stressed that the troops are destroying Daesh march laden small aircraft bombs, in addition to boats fitted with explosives thrown by theorganization across the river.

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Deputy for Nineveh says that the left coast of the connector completely free   Friday January 13 2017 13:38                 Alsumaria News / Baghdad  MP said the province Ninoi Abd al - Rahim al - Shammari, Friday, that the left coast of the city of Mosul was liberated completely.   Shammari said in a statement Alsumaria News received a copy of it, " the joint security forces liberated and completely left coast of the city of Mosul."  Shammari said, "our units , security heroine is currently dealing with some of the remaining small pockets of Daesh the parties to the Arab neighborhood , " pointing to the existence of " a major breakdown of the components of Daesh in the arena of operations thanks to the arms of the security forces."         The joint security forces and continue the support of the army aviation and the international coalition edit city of Mosul from the grip of "Daesh" process, after the announcement of the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi launch of "zero hour" in the (October 201 617), for the Liberation of Nineveh.

 

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Iraqi Forces Breach ISIS Stronghold in Mosul

After strategic shift to retake university campus, commanders claim progress against Islamic State

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The Wall Street Journal

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Updated Jan. 13, 2017 3:39 p.m. ET

 

The campus is one of the two main facilities in Mosul that U.S. and Iraqi officials said the militants used to build bombs, develop chemical weapons and treat wounded fighters. Iraqi forces seized the other facility, a hospital, last week.

“If they lose the campus, their fighters and supporters will lose their morale. For them, losing the campus means losing the eastern side of the city,” said Gen. Sami al-Aridi, a commander with the forces leading the push into the university.

Col. John Dorrian, spokesman for the U.S.-led international coalition battling Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, said the progress at the university and other parts of eastern Mosul indicated Islamic State’s “days in Mosul are quickly coming to an end.”

The university campus has repeatedly come under Iraqi and U.S.-led airstrikes since last year.

Iraq has made plodding progress in the battle for Mosul, with gains measured in streets rather than miles.

The breach of the campus suggested Iraqi troops were gaining momentum. The university covers as much territory as a typical neighborhood in Mosul—but one rife with militants and devoid of civilians, Iraqi officials said. Iraqi forces so far have taken several buildings, including dorms and the technical college, officials said on Friday.

The Mosul campaign began on Oct. 17 and initially moved along the southern, eastern and northern edges of the city. But the fight got bogged down by late November. Militants put up a tough fight in the densely populated neighborhoods of eastern Mosul, where most residents stayed in their homes at the encouragement of the Iraqi government and out of fear for the perils of fleeing. Some 100,000 out of the estimated 1.5 million in the city and its surrounding towns have fled.

The presence of the civilians, along with insufficient numbers of elite troops to wage intricate urban warfare, has led to heavy casualties, commanders and medical workers said. By mid-December, Iraqi advances in the city ground to a halt.

Late last month, commanders brought well-trained police SWAT units from the southern edges of the city into the east to fight in tandem with the counterterrorism forces. They also reduced the role of armored tank divisions that proved to be too lumbering to wage urban combat.

At the same time, Islamic State ability to build and equip car bombs, their most deadly weapon, was depleted by the loss of bomb making factories to Iraqi forces and the lack of willing suicide bombers, Iraqi officials said.

The changes have led to rapid advances toward the Tigris in recent days, said Gen. Maan al-Saadi, a senior officer with the U.S.-trained Counterterrorism Division. “This has reduced the enemy’s pressure on our troops,” he said.

The benefits came into focus last week, when newly deployed troops from the Emergency Response Division, a police SWAT force, reclaimed the large Al-Salam Hospital complex in about six hours.

The hospital had been an Islamic State base and was the site of a withering ambush of Iraqi Army troops last month, which led to the reconsideration of the battle plan. The Army’s 9th Armored Division had made a bold raid on the massive facility, but hours later militants ambushed the force. They had to be rescued by counterterrorism units and U.S. airstrikes on the hospital.

Commanders said the episode highlighted the need for more nimble forces that rely less on heavy weapons and tanks.

“It was a step-by-step approach,” Brig. Gen. Abbas al-Jubouri of the Emergency Response Division said of last week’s success in wresting back the strategic facility.

The 7-storey main building of the hospital campus is the highest in eastern Mosul and has panoramic views of the entire city. Militants there, with unfettered visibility, had built sniper nests in the windows of the stairwells.

During a visit to the hospital on Friday, some ammunition and weapons, including rocket tubes, were left scattered on the ground near medicines and adult diapers that remained stacked neatly on the shelves.

 

http://www.wsj.com/articles/iraqi-forces-breach-isis-stronghold-in-mosul-1484338415   

 

Edited January 13, 2017 by tigergorzow

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On 1/11/2017 at 6:07 AM, vato96 said:

How does 3 districts take 3 months to liberate?

Who knows? Maybe the answer lies in the same book as why, ( and HOW) if the U.S. has a 19 trillion dollar deficit, we can afford to send billions upon billions to other countries??

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Juma victory in Mosul

 

 

1/14/2017 0:00  The restoration of the government headquarters and the storming of the university .. and the Prophet Yunus (AS) pending the liberation   of  Mosul / Sunrise Maher  is determined to speed up the liberalization of Mosul operations, ran the General Command of the Armed Forces yesterday its engines and its action plans to record victories unprecedented after he had managed heroes of our troops from the restoration of the government headquarters in central Mosul and storming University inspired the Prophet Yunus (AS) and cleanse the new neighborhoods, pending edit coast left completely announcement very soon, to turn into a victory on Friday would be recorded in the annals of the history of the new Iraq.  According to the field for "morning , " military leaders, were yesterday edit revive the chest, competencies , and the victory and the Al Faisaliah, as well as control of the second bridge (Bridge Freedom), and restore the government complex , which includes the Nineveh governorate building and the new provincial council and the building Mayor of Mosul and the departments of Agriculture and Urban Planning and Real State .  As was yesterday storming of the University of Mosul and hoisted the Iraqi flag over most of its buildings, including the Technical Institute and most colleges and internal departments, in addition to freeing the entire north garage and headed to Algiers neighborhood and the location of the tomb of the Prophet Yunus (AS) in a quick military operation began yesterday evening in this coast, while embarked cleansing operation shy of the door of the sun and the widows after the completion of control and revive Alsaheron Sumer and peace.

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Yota Thanks,  DV,  Excellent news......................The Iraqi & Coalition Forces are moving at light speed killing these cockroaches!!!!!!!!

Always Keeping The Faith!!

GO RV!!