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Islamic State hits back in Mosul but faces new Raqqa front

EghtesadOnline: Islamic State fighters targeted Iraqi troops with car bombs and ambushes in Mosul, stalling an army advance in their north Iraq stronghold, but faced attack on a new front on Sunday when U.S.-backed rebels launched a campaign for the Syrian city of Raqqa.
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Publish Date:07/November/2016 | 05:30

Iraqi forces fighting Islamic State say nearing Mosul airport

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi security forces drove Islamic State fighters from the center of a town just south of the militants' main stronghold of Mosul on Saturday and reached within a few km (miles) of an airport on the edge of the city, a senior commander said.
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Publish Date:06/November/2016 | 05:21

Iraqi forces push deeper into eastern Mosul

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi special forces said they recaptured six districts of eastern Mosul on Friday, expanding the army's foothold in the Islamic State bastion a day after its leader told his jihadist followers there could be no retreat.
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Publish Date:05/November/2016 | 05:13

Beyond the bluster, Baghdadi signals Islamic State’s next move

EghtesdaOnline: In the early hours of November 3, Islamic State’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, released his first statement in nearly a year – a defiant message that the group will not fade away quietly, even as Iraqi special forces breached the outskirts of Mosul, the last major city in Iraq under Islamic State’s control.
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Publish Date:05/November/2016 | 04:49

IS leader confident in victory, in first message about Mosul battle

EghtesadOnline: Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi expressed confidence in victory, in his first message after U.S.-backed Iraqi forces started an offensive to take back Mosul, the last major city under control of his group in Iraq.
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Publish Date:03/November/2016 | 04:24

Iraqi troops battle Islamic State inside Mosul

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi forces battled Islamic State fighters on the eastern edge of Mosul on Tuesday as the two-week campaign to recapture the jihadists' last main bastion in Iraq entered a new phase of urban warfare.
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Publish Date:02/November/2016 | 05:26

Iraqi forces target Islamic State defenses on Mosul's eastern edge

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi forces backed by a U.S.-led air coalition targeted Islamic State defenses on the eastern edge of Mosul with artillery fire and air strikes on Tuesday, a day after fighting for the first time inside the city.
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Publish Date:01/November/2016 | 11:48

Whose Rebels Will Fight for Raqqa Deepens U.S.-Turkey Divisions

EghtesadOnline: With the battle for the Iraqi city of Mosul barely begun, the U.S. and its allies say they need to move within weeks on the other remaining Islamic State stronghold, Raqqa in Syria. The trouble is that no one can agree on who should do the actual fighting.
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Publish Date:29/October/2016 | 06:02

Iraq's Shi'ite militias say offensive west of Mosul imminent

EghtesadOnline: Iranian-backed Iraqi Shi'ite paramilitary groups are about to launch an offensive on Islamic State positions west of Mosul, assisting in the military campaign to take back the city, a spokesman said on Friday.
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Publish Date:28/October/2016 | 15:24

Islamic State holds up Iraqi army south of Mosul

EghtesadOnline: Islamic State fighters on Wednesday kept up their fierce defense of the southern approaches to Mosul which has held up Iraqi troops on the southern front and forced an elite army unit east of the city to put its more rapid advance on hold.
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Publish Date:26/October/2016 | 13:07

Iraqi army's elite force pauses advance near Mosul

ٍEghtesadOnline: An elite unit of the Iraqi army paused its week-long advance on Mosul as it approached the city's eastern edge on Tuesday, waiting for other U.S.-backed forces to close in on Islamic State's last major urban stronghold in Iraq.
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Publish Date:25/October/2016 | 20:05

Turkish army says hits Islamic State, Kurdish YPG targets in Syria

EghtesadOnline: Turkey's military struck dozens of Islamic State and Kurdish YPG militia targets in Syria over the last 24 hours, depriving both groups of the ability to move around, the army said on Monday, as its operation there entered a third month.
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Publish Date:24/October/2016 | 09:05

Iraqi army drives Islamic State from Christian region near Mosul

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi army troops on Saturday stormed into a Christian region that has been under Islamic State control since 2014 as part of U.S.-backed operations to clear the entrances to Mosul, the militants' last major city stronghold in Iraq.
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Publish Date:23/October/2016 | 05:36

Iraqi elite unit, Kurdish forces in fresh push to close in on Mosul

EghtesadOnline: An Iraqi army elite unit and Kurdish fighters on Thursday launched a fresh offensive to dislodge Islamic State militants from villages around Mosul, their last major city stronghold in Iraq, with the air and ground support of the U.S.-led coalition.
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Publish Date:20/October/2016 | 07:23

U.S. expects Islamic State to wield chemical weapons in Mosul fight

EghtesadOnline: The United States expects Islamic State to use crude chemical weapons as it tries to repel an Iraqi-led offensive on the city of Mosul, U.S. officials say, although adding that the group's technical ability to develop such weapons is highly limited.
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Publish Date:19/October/2016 | 05:47

Iraq launches offensive to recapture Mosul from Islamic State

EghtesadOnline: Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Monday launched a battle to liberate the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State in its most ambitious campaign since U.S. forces left five years ago, and the United States predicted the militant group would suffer "a lasting defeat."
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Publish Date:17/October/2016 | 05:54