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(’16 october 2016′ – ’10 july 2017′)
(*decisive iraqi government and alied victory*)
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Arabic: معركة الموصل;
Central Kurdish: شەڕی مووسڵ)
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(the Battle of Mosul is a joint offensive by
Iraqi government forces
with
allied militias,
the ‘Kurdistan Regional Government’,
and international forces
to retake the city of ‘Mosul’ from the ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL))
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(the offensive, dubbed Operation “We Are Coming, Nineveh” (قادمون يا نينوى; Qadimun Ya Naynawa), began on 16 October 2016, with forces besieging ISIL-controlled areas in the Nineveh Governorate surrounding ‘Mosul’)
(the battle for ‘Mosul’ is considered key in the military intervention against ISIL, which seized the city in June 2014)
(outnumbering ISIL forces 10 to 1, it is the largest deployment of Iraqi troops since the 2003 invasion of Iraq)
(the operation follows the ‘Mosul’ offensives in 2015 and 2016)
(the offensive began with ‘Iraqi’ troops and ‘Peshmerga’ fighters engaging ISIL on 3 fronts outside ‘Mosul’, going from village to village in the surrounding area)
(more than 120 towns and villages were liberated from ISIL control in the first 2 weeks of fighting)
(at dawn on 1 November, ‘Iraqi Special Operations Forces’ entered the city from the east)
(met with fierce fighting, the government advance into the city was slowed by elaborate defenses – including road blocks, booby traps, suicide bombers and snipers – and by the presence of civilians)
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(the ‘battle of mosul’ is con-current with the ‘Battle of Sirte’ (2016) in ‘Libya’, and the ‘Raqqa offensive’ by the ‘Syrian Democratic Forces’ (SDF), on ISIL’s capital city and stronghold in ‘syria’)
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👈👈👈☜*THE HISTORY OF ‘IRAQ’* ☞ 👉👉👉
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥