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Probably just probing after the airstrikes for now - moving up into any gaps, and drawing the ISIS guys into firing or moving, to reveal their positions for future targeting.
A few nights or a week of this will really take the ISIS holdouts down a few notches.
The Iranians and their Shi’te militia friends did not have the firepower to breach Saddam’s old palaces - built to withstand Iranian rockets - with lots of thick, high-strength, heavily reinforced concrete. You need some serious bunker busters, fire and smoke to clear fighters out of those strongpoints. The Shia could drive ISIS into the Palaces, but could not get them out without a mountain of casualties.