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Iraq launches offensive on last Islamic State stronghold in Mosul

EghtesadOnline: U.S.-backed Iraqi forces on Sunday launched a ground offensive to dislodge Islamic State militants from the western part of the city of Mosul, and put an end to their ambitions for territorial rule in Iraq.
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Publish Date:20/February/2017 | 05:33

Iraqi Troops Advance in Eastern Mosul Amid Fierce Clashes

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi special forces battled Islamic State militants on Monday in two key neighborhoods in the eastern half of Mosul, a senior commander said, advancing deeper after fully routing IS from the sprawling complex of the Mosul University, a major step in the massive operation to retake the city.
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Publish Date:16/January/2017 | 15:11

Thousands more Iraqis flee Mosul as military advances

EghtesadOnline: More than 2,000 Iraqis a day are fleeing Mosul, several hundred more each day than before U.S.-led coalition forces began a new phase of their battle to retake the city from Islamic State, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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Publish Date:04/January/2017 | 14:39

Baghdad blasts kill 25 as Mosul fighting intensifies

EghtesadOnline: Two bombs claimed by Islamic State killed 25 people in central Baghdad on Saturday, as fighting intensified in the northern city of Mosul where government forces are trying to rout the jihadists from their last major stronghold in the country.
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Publish Date:31/December/2016 | 13:56

Fresh advance in east Mosul to begin within days - U.S. commander

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi forces will resume their push against Islamic State inside Mosul in the coming days, a U.S. battlefield commander said, in a new phase of the two-month-old operation that will see American troops deployed closer to the front line in the city.
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Publish Date:26/December/2016 | 15:04

Iraqi army launches fresh assault toward Mosul center

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi army units surged toward the center of Mosul on Tuesday in an attack from the city's southeastern edges that could give fresh impetus to the seven-week-old battle for Islamic State's Iraqi stronghold.
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Publish Date:07/December/2016 | 10:36

Iraqi troops push towards central Mosul from southeast

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi army units launched a fresh assault in southeast Mosul on Tuesday and a senior commander was quoted as saying an armored division had advanced to within less than a mile (1.5 km) of the Tigris River running through the city center.
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Publish Date:06/December/2016 | 11:08

Mosul residents fear cold and hunger of winter siege

EghtesadOnline: No food or fuel has reached Mosul in nearly a week and the onset of rain and cold weather threatens a tough winter for more than a million people still in Islamic State-held areas of the city, residents said on Saturday.
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Publish Date:04/December/2016 | 12:06

Kurds, Shi'ite fighters to coordinate after sealing off Mosul

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi Kurdish and Shi'ite forces agreed to coordinate movements after cutting off Mosul from the rest of the territory held by Islamic State in western Iraq and Syria in support of a U.S-backed offensive to capture the city, U.S. and Iraqi officials said on Thursday.
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Publish Date:24/November/2016 | 15:22

Iran acknowledges Iraqi government's power to launch Mosul liberation

EghtesadOnline: First Vice President Es'haq Jahangiri said on Saturday that Iran acknowledges power of the Iraqi government to launch operation for Mosul liberation in parallel with management of major procession in Karbala and Najaf to mark Arbaeen.
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Publish Date:20/November/2016 | 10:42

Iraqi forces yet to seal off Mosul as battle enters second month

EghtesadOnline: The U.S.-backed offensive to crush Islamic State in its last major city stronghold in Iraq entered a second month on Thursday as forces arrayed against the hardline Sunni group sought finally to seal off Mosul from all sides.
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Publish Date:17/November/2016 | 15:47

Iraqi special forces seize Mosul district in fresh push

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi special forces said they pushed deeper into Mosul on Friday despite heavy resistance from Islamic State militants using civilians as cover, and were holding half a dozen city neighborhoods seized in the last 10 days.
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Publish Date:12/November/2016 | 05:58

Iraq forces accused of killing, torturing civilians south of Mosul

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi government forces killed and tortured civilians south of Mosul, rights groups said on Thursday, the first such reports of alleged abuse in a U.S.-backed campaign to retake the city from Islamic State.
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Publish Date:10/November/2016 | 08:31

'Crashing waves' of jihadists fray soldiers' nerves in Mosul battle

EghtesadOnline: A week after his tank division punched through Islamic State defenses on the southeast edge of Mosul, an Iraqi army colonel says the fight to drive the militants out of their urban stronghold is turning into a nightmare.
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Publish Date:10/November/2016 | 07:49

Iraq peshmerga storm Islamic State town as army battles in Mosul

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces stormed an Islamic State-held town northeast of Mosul on Monday, clearing a pocket of militants outside the city while Iraqi troops wage a fierce urban war with the jihadists in its eastern neighborhoods.
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Publish Date:08/November/2016 | 08:43

Islamic State brutality comes to light after military advance

EghtesadOnline: From behind the curtains of his bedroom window, 29-year-old Riyad Ahmed would peer out at Islamic State fighters dragging civilians into a makeshift jail across the street and then sending them in the middle of the night to be executed.
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Publish Date:08/November/2016 | 07:30