"Iraqi forces face Islamic State car bombs, fierce ..." Topic

…resistance in south Mosul.

"Iraqi forces faced car bombs and fierce resistance from Islamic State militants in southern Mosul on Friday, the second day of a renewed push to take back the city after fighting stalled for several weeks.

An officer in the federal police forces, which joined the battle on Thursday, said there were heavy clashes in the southeastern Palestine district, but they had made progress in two other neighborhoods, disabling a number of car bombs.

Another officer, from an elite Interior Ministry unit fighting alongside federal police, said his forces were gaining ground in the Intisar district despite heavy clashes there.

Iraqi forces in the east and north of the city were clearing areas they had recaptured on Thursday before advancing any further, officers said, and the army was trying to cut supply lines to the town of Tel Keyf, north of Mosul…"
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Amicalement
Armand

It is going to be a very long dirty slog … removing Daesh from Mosul and others places in Iraq and Syria …

Agree!

Long and Bloody…!

Amicalement
Armand

Anytime a terrorist attack occurs in many places in the Mid East, there really should be no surprise … It's a standard it seems. The only question is who is responsible as there are too many factions trying to kill each other off. That is the Hell on Earth they have created all by themselves. Regardless of the West being involved or not … The West had nothing to do with the Sunni-Shia conflict. Or the many conflicts between all the various factions, tribes, clans, etc., etc.