This
is the western propaganda version. Progress has been ‘slowed’
because of resistance by the terrorists.
Iraqi army's elite force pauses advance near Mosul
An
elite unit of the Iraqi army paused its week-long advance on Mosul as
it approached the city's eastern edge on Tuesday, waiting for other
U.S.-backed forces to close in on Islamic State's last major urban
stronghold in Iraq.
On
the ninth day of the offensive on Mosul, government forces and allied
Kurdish Peshmerga fighters are still fighting their way towards the
outer limits of the northern city, in the early stages of an assault
which could become the biggest military operation in Iraq in over a
decade.
And from RT
This
is the western propaganda version. Progress has been ‘slowed’
because of resistance by the terrorists.
An elite unit of the Iraqi army paused its week-long advance on Mosul as it approached the city's eastern edge on Tuesday, waiting for other U.S.-backed forces to close in on Islamic State's last major urban stronghold in Iraq.
On
the ninth day of the offensive on Mosul, government forces and allied
Kurdish Peshmerga fighters are still fighting their way towards the
outer limits of the northern city, in the early stages of an assault
which could become the biggest military operation in Iraq in over a
decade.
You
won’t see any of the following in the western press.
60 civilians killed, 200 injured as US-led coalition strikes Mosul residential areas – Russian MoD
RT,
27
October, 2016
Over
60 civilians have been killed and at least 200 injured during three
days of US-led coalition airstrikes on residential areas in Mosul,
the Russian military reported.
“There
were numerous attacks of the US-led coalition targeting residential
areas, schools, and other civilian objects both in Mosul and in other
parts of the Iraqi Nineveh Governorate,”
Gen. Sergey Rudskoy, head of Operations in the Russian General Staff,
told journalists on Tuesday.
RT
US-led coalition strike killed dozens of civilian mourners 30km from Kirkuk – Russian MoD
“We
are closely monitoring the situation around Mosul. So far we see no
substantial progress in liberating this city from the terrorists of
ISIS,”
he added, referring to the terrorist organization Islamic State by
its former name.
According
to the Russian military, among the civilian objects hit by US-led
coalition airstrikes was a school for girls in southern Mosul, which
was attacked last Friday.
Meanwhile,
the International Committee of the Red Cross reiterated its call not
to target civilians and civilian infrastructure in Mosul. The aid
organization earlier warned that the offensive may force hundreds of
thousands of refugees to flee the city, overstretching Iraq’s
already-challenged ability to shelter them.
The
general described the situation around the Iraqi city on the
sidelines of a report about Russia’s action in Syria, where Moscow
and Damascus continue a pause in the offensive in Aleppo, which is
divided between the Syrian Army and various armed groups, including
the terrorist organization Al-Nusra Front.
48 women & children flee rebel-held Aleppo as Damascus, Moscow cease airstrikes
http://on.rt.com/7sud
Rudskoy
said that Russia has not conducted sorties over and around Aleppo
since last Tuesday and intends to continue holding off the warplanes.
Fighting on the ground in the city resumed on Sunday, after a
three-day unilateral ceasefire was derailed by insurgents, who
prevented civilians from fleeing the battered city.
Iraq’s
Mosul is being besieged by a ragtag coalition of uneasy allies, which
includes Iraqi government forces, Shiite militias, Kurdish troops,
and the Turkish Army. The US-led coalition is providing air support
for the operation, which was launched a week ago.
IS
fighters have since launched a number of raids on their opponents’
communications, distracting the attacking forces from Mosul. No
fighting inside the city has been reported yet, although several
neighborhoods were seized during the offensive.
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