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| Iraq |
| Iraqi army cuts off last 'Islamic State' supply line to west Mosul |
| 2017-03-13 |
| [DW] Iraqi forces have cut off the last supply route into djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , effectively trapping the Death Eaters of the so-called "Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... " (IS) group. Hundreds of thousands of civilians remained trapped in the city. Brett McGurk, the US envoy to the anti-IS coalition said on Sunday that fighters with the Islamist group were "trapped. Just last night, the 9th Iraqi army division ... cut off the last road out of Mosul," "Any of the fighters who are left in Mosul, they're going to die there," McGurk said. "We are very committed to not just defeating them in Mosul, but making sure these guys cannot escape." After "fully liberating" the city's east from IS in January, US-backed Iraqi forces moved onto western Mosul, with a renewed push in March. 65,000 people have fled Mosul in the past two weeks alone, according to the International Organisation for Migration "Mosul's liberation is increasingly in sight albeit with increasingly difficult fighting ahead," McGurk said, adding that Iraqi forces were retaking "some of the most difficult ground that we knew would have to be reclaimed. They're doing this in a dense urban environment facing a suicidal enemy that's using civilians as shields." |
| Posted by:Fred |