Sourced : Voice of America
The fight for Iraq’s second-largest city is in its final push, with Islamic State down to fewer than 1,000 fighters in three neighborhoods of west Mosul, U.S. military officials said Friday.
Speaking with VOA via Skype from Baghdad, Brigadier General Rick Uribe, the deputy commanding general for U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq, said the “level of desperation” from IS fighters was rising.
“They know they’re about to lose,” Uribe said, “so their goal is to inflict as many casualties, not only in the Iraqi security forces but on any innocent victims and anybody that’s left.”
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