Operation in Mosul Will Start Soon

Iraqi forces will resume their push against ISIS inside Mosul in the coming days, according to a US battlefield commander. Reuters reported that elite Iraqi soldiers have retaken a quarter of Mosul, but their advance become slow. They entered a planned operational refit this month. Lieutenant Colonel Stuart James told Reuters that right now we are staging really for the next phase of the attack as we start the penetration into the interior of east Mosul. The battle for Mosul, involving 100,000 Iraqi troops, members of the Kurdish security forces and Shia militiamen, is the biggest ground operation in Iraq since the US-led invasion of 2003, according to Peninsula Qatar’s Daily Newspaper.