Iraqi forces breach eastern districts of Mosul

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Source: The Guardian

Iraqi forces battling Islamic State near Mosul have breached the eastern districts of the city as a coalition including special forces units, tribal fighters and Kurdish paramilitaries pushes ahead with its offensive.

Inhabitants of the city said that Iraqi soldiers backed by airstrikes and artillery were advancing into the eastern-most neighbourhoods, despite stiff resistance from Isis fighters.

Speaking by telephone from the eastern edge of the city, Abu Mohammed, 35, who asked the Guardian to withhold his real name and exact location for fear of retaliation, said that government forces had entered the Karama and al-Qods neighbourhoods, and that many Isis fighters had withdrawn.

“The Iraqi army is near us. Daesh is putting up intense resistance but the Iraqi soldiers are not scared; they just advance,” he said.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/31/iraqi-forces-approaching-eastern-districts-of-mosul-reports-say

[Warpy]

1. Once Mosul falls, that will be about it for DAESH and its Caliphate

Oh, it will continue as loosely connected criminal gangs here and there, but the people who originally welcomed them as a way to evict all foreigners soon found out DAESH was worse than colonialists. They blew their chance to govern by letting the Islamists declare war against normal human behavior.