Iraq's military says it has inflicted "heavy losses of life and equipment" on ISIS southeast of Mosul as Iraqi-led forces close in on the city in an attempt to recapture it from the terror group.
"We have achieved a lot of success so far," said Masoud Barzani, president of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government.
Kurdish Peshmerga forces are playing a key role in the offensive, which started early Monday morning.
"This is the first time that the block of the Peshmerga forces and the Iraqi army are mixed and shared in the battlefield against the terrorist organization," Barzani said.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi made a televised statement Monday announcing the start of mission to retake Iraq's second-largest city and free more than 1 million residents from the tyranny of life under of ISIS.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/17/middle...n-begins-iraq/
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