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Iraq

Next year in Mosul: Iraqi Kurds cut off ISIL/ Daesh Supply Lines

contributors 06/15/2015

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VICE News | (Video report) | –

“A year after the Islamic State’s lightning conquest of Iraq’s second-largest city of Mosul, the poorly-trained and equipped Kurdish peshmerga forces are the international coalition’s only reliable boots on the ground in northern Iraq.

The Pentagon’s hopes of recapturing the city by spring 2015 have been dashed by the military failures of the Iraqi Army further south, leaving the peshmerga to defend a 600-mile long frontline almost encircling Mosul, fending off constant Islamic State (IS) assaults with insufficient supplies of ammunition and modern weapons.

When the peshmerga captured Iraq’s strategic junction of Keske in January 2015, they cut the main IS supply line between their strongholds of Mosul and Raqqa.

In the conclusion to our three-part series, VICE News follows legendary peshmerga colonel Abu Rish as he defends a vital base overlooking the junction from against any potential IS counterattack.”

VICE News: “Cutting the Islamic State’s Supply Lines: The Road to Mosul (Part 3)”

Filed Under: Iraq, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Kurds, political Islam, Salafis

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