Posted on 05/26/2016 12:29:56 PM PDT by milton23
The Daily Signal foreign correspondent Nolan Peterson recently visited the Kurdish peshmerga’s front line positions surrounding the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul—Iraq’s second biggest city.
The peshmerga, which translates to “one who faces death,” are an ally of Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S.-led international coalition combatting Islamic State, the terrorist army also known as ISIS.
Kurdish commanders say the U.S.-led airstrikes have been a game changer, degrading their enemy and boosting the Kurds’ morale. And despite a lack of heavy weapons and ammunition, the peshmerga soldiers are determined to keep fighting.
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What ever happened to the vaunted assault on Fallujah started earlier this week?
“What ever happened to the vaunted assault on Fallujah started earlier this week?”
It is ongoing.
The Iraqi Army and Shi’ite militias are advancing, artillery is falling in the city, and US airstrikes are occurring.
The initial advances are reasonably fast, as ISIS falls back toward their strongholds in the city - but they leave lots of bobby trap IEDs behind that slow progress. Urban warfare is typically a slow, bloody grind.
ISIS is outnumbered and outgunned in Fallujah, but it is a Sunni population, and has a high profile with ISIS and their Sunni supporters, for their past resistance to the Americans and Shi’ites.
Even if the Iraqi Army does not take Fallujah soon, they will at least pin down the jihadis and keep a lot of them out of nearby Baghdad. The scale of the fight is pretty high for ISIS - they are suffering attrition.
Thank you for the update.
Ths can all be solved with carpet bombing.
The Shi'ite-led Government of Iraq may seek to just stave out the population of Fallujah, and reduce the place to rubble, kind of ethnically cleanse the city for good, rather than ever go door-to-door.
They have cut off the all the supply lines into the city, and have big guns emplaced:
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