Preparations to attack American Iraqis to restore Mosul
The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that the United States and Iraq has begun preparations to launch an offensive to regain control of Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq, the organization of the Islamic state with summer.
The newspaper quoted the commander of US Central Command, Gen. Lloyd Austin as saying that preparations include the selection of units of military training for the planned attack and cut supply lines to its fighters.
According to the US official, will lead the two divisions Aracatan -pinha Cardah- forces troops who would fight for the restoration of Mosul, he said, adding that the US troops will receive training for a period of between four and six weeks.
However, the US official said he had not decided yet whether they will be accompanied by US ground forces and the Iraqi units in the attack.
And Mosul in northern Iraq seized by state regulation through a broad attack last June is the largest city in the "Caliphate State" announced by state regulation in an area stretching across the border from northern Iraq to the east of Syria.
The focus of the air raids by an international coalition led by the United States recently on the connector, also launched a peshmerga Kurdish attacks, which regained the streets of the organization near the city.
The connector includes the control of insurgents before them more than a million people, but a large portion of them left after that.
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The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that the United States and Iraq has begun preparations to launch an offensive to regain control of Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq, the organization of the Islamic state with summer.
The newspaper quoted the commander of US Central Command, Gen. Lloyd Austin as saying that preparations include the selection of units of military training for the planned attack and cut supply lines to its fighters.
According to the US official, will lead the two divisions Aracatan -pinha Cardah- forces troops who would fight for the restoration of Mosul, he said, adding that the US troops will receive training for a period of between four and six weeks.
However, the US official said he had not decided yet whether they will be accompanied by US ground forces and the Iraqi units in the attack.
And Mosul in northern Iraq seized by state regulation through a broad attack last June is the largest city in the "Caliphate State" announced by state regulation in an area stretching across the border from northern Iraq to the east of Syria.
The focus of the air raids by an international coalition led by the United States recently on the connector, also launched a peshmerga Kurdish attacks, which regained the streets of the organization near the city.
The connector includes the control of insurgents before them more than a million people, but a large portion of them left after that.
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