Islamic State group leaders have been fleeing Mosul as US-backed local forces close in on the militants' last Iraqi stronghold, a US general said Wednesday.
"We are telling Daesh that their leaders are abandoning them. We've seen a movement out of Mosul," US Army Major General Gary Volesky said in a video briefing from Baghdad, using an Arabic acronym for IS.
Volesky predicted that "foreign fighters" will end up forming a large contingent of Islamist "militants" remaining in the city, as they have nowhere else to go.
[AFP/ahram.org.eg]
19/10/16
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"We are telling Daesh that their leaders are abandoning them. We've seen a movement out of Mosul," US Army Major General Gary Volesky said in a video briefing from Baghdad, using an Arabic acronym for IS.
Volesky predicted that "foreign fighters" will end up forming a large contingent of Islamist "militants" remaining in the city, as they have nowhere else to go.
[AFP/ahram.org.eg]
19/10/16
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