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Iraq troops ready to tighten noose around IS in Mosul
(MENAFN) Iraqi soldiers fighting just north of Mosul, within sight of city neighbourhoods, said on Sunday they were ready to tighten the noose around Islamic State (IS) militants waging a brutal defence of their Iraqi stronghold.
In detail, four weeks into the campaign to crush IS in Mosul, the city is almost surrounded, but the militants' defences have so far been breached only to the east, where they have battled elite troops for control of about a dozen districts.
The battle for Mosul, the biggest city held by the ultra-hardline Sunni militant group in Iraq and Syria, is the largest military operation in Iraq in a decade of turmoil unleashed by the 2003 US invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
Iraq's Shia-led government, which has assembled a 100,000-strong coalition of troops, security forces, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and mainly Shia militias, backed by US air power, says it will mark the end of IS in Iraq.
In detail, four weeks into the campaign to crush IS in Mosul, the city is almost surrounded, but the militants' defences have so far been breached only to the east, where they have battled elite troops for control of about a dozen districts.
The battle for Mosul, the biggest city held by the ultra-hardline Sunni militant group in Iraq and Syria, is the largest military operation in Iraq in a decade of turmoil unleashed by the 2003 US invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
Iraq's Shia-led government, which has assembled a 100,000-strong coalition of troops, security forces, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and mainly Shia militias, backed by US air power, says it will mark the end of IS in Iraq.
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