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Post by sevenofnine on Oct 16, 2016 18:39:02 GMT -5
Right now Al Jazeera live stream has exclusive coverage found on that
Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has announced the start of a major offensive to retake Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group.
Mosul is Iraq's second largest city and the last urban centre still under ISIL control in Iraq after a series of government offensives to reverse the group's lightning-quick seizure of territory in 2014.
According to UN estimates, up to one million people could be displaced from Mosul during the operation, exacerbating the humanitarian situation in the country.
Ahead of the planned operation, Iraqi aircraft dropped "tens of thousands" of leaflets early on Sunday, some bearing safety instructions for Mosul residents, the military said
www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/10/iraq-pm-declares-offensive-retake-mosul-isil-161016195208936.html
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Post by fearnot on Oct 17, 2016 14:31:57 GMT -5
More wars and rumors of wars.
I found the map that was with the article very interesting....but it doesn't look like Isil controls much?
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Post by sevenofnine on Oct 17, 2016 15:08:09 GMT -5
NO even Brian Suits was saying about this on KFI this morning
Nasser Atta @nasseratta5 · 55m55 minutes ago
Breaking news : #Iraqi war jet F- 16 attacked and destroyed 30 #ISIS pickup leaving #Mosul to #Syria. @almayadeennews
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Post by sevenofnine on Oct 22, 2016 17:34:46 GMT -5
Dont' be surprise if Kurds liberate Mosul pretty soon
BARTELLA, Iraq (AP) — The Iraqi army pushed into a town near the Islamic State-held city of Mosul on Saturday, a day after dozens of IS militants stormed into the northern city of Kirkuk, setting off two days of clashes and killing at least 80 people, mostly security forces.
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter meanwhile met with Iraqi commanders in Baghdad to discuss the offensive to retake Mosul, which the U.S. is supporting with airstrikes and advisers on the ground.
The Iraqi army said the 9th Division has pushed into the town of Hamdaniyah, also known as Qaraqosh and Bakhdida, and raised the flag over its government compound, but the troops were likely still facing resistance in and around the town. Similar past announcements have often proved premature.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iraq-pushes-into-town-near-mosul-after-is-assault-on-kirkuk/ar-AAjfTRl?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=UE07DHP
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Post by sevenofnine on Oct 23, 2016 19:34:53 GMT -5
Here more Iraqi forces advance near Mosul as IS attacks western town KHAZER, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi Kurdish forces pushed toward Mosul on Sunday, cordoning off eight villages and coming within 9 kilometers (5 ½ miles) of the northern city held by the Islamic State group, which staged an attack in a western town hundreds of miles away in an apparent diversionary tactic. The Kurdish forces, known as peshmerga, said the area they cordoned off measures around 100 square kilometers (38 square miles), and that they also secured a "significant stretch" of highway. The statement said eight car bombs were destroyed in the operation, including three by U.S.-led coalition aircraft, and "dozens" of militants were killed. The offensive near the town of Bashiqa came nearly a week after Iraq announced the start of the long-awaited Mosul offensive. Iraqi and Kurdish forces are approaching from the north, east and south through a belt of mostly abandoned and heavily mined villages scattered across the Ninevah plain. www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iraqi-forces-advance-near-mosul-as-is-attacks-western-town/ar-AAjhSPC?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=UE07DHP |
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Post by Daniel on Oct 25, 2016 7:10:20 GMT -5
HUGE LOSS FOR THE ISLAMIC STATE: Dabiq seized by coalition forces. What happened to all the Islamic prophecies of an apocalyptic, End of Days battle in which the West would be destroyed?
Joel C. Rosenberg
October 21, 2016
The false prophecies of ISIS have fallen flat.
As the battle to liberate the city of Mosul from the control of the Islamic State in Iraq was launched this week, coalition forces quietly liberated another key site from ISIS control in Syria — the Syrian town of Dabiq.
Few Westerners seemed to notice, but this was actually huge strategic and psychological loss for the Islamic State. Why? Because ISIS leaders have long proclaimed that Dabiq would be the site of an apocalyptic battle in the End of Days. Indeed, control of Dabiq is central to the eschatology of the Islamic State.
“The Islamic State’s magazine is called, Dabiq,” I noted on Fox News in January. “Most people have no idea what that means. [Dabiq] is a little town in the north of Syria. Why is that important? Because they believe, based on ancient Islamic prophecies, that the Western world — ‘the forces of Rome’ — will be drawn to that spot for the second-to-last battle of all history, and that the West will lose, and the Islamic State will win, and then they head to Jerusalem. The idea is that they believe that the End of Days has come, their messiah — known as the ‘Mahdi’ — will come reign over the entire world at any moment. The [leaders of ISIS] are driven by an Islamic eschatology that’s genocidal. And that’s why it’s so dangerous. And yet most leaders — including the President and our two front-runners on the Democrat and Republican side — they don’t understand it. They don’t talk about it. That’s a problem.”
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flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/21/huge-loss-for-the-islamic-state-dabiq-seized-by-coalition-forces-what-happened-to-all-the-islamic-prophecies-of-an-apocalyptic-end-of-days-battle-in-which-the-west-would-be-destroyed/?BHT-e59e66a2-cacb-4cf7-aa3c-5e5fc4440bfd.0
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Post by sevenofnine on Oct 25, 2016 14:44:20 GMT -5
BIG Epic fail eh ISIS LOL!
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