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Offensive leads to capture of four villages but ISIL hits back with suicide attacks against Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers.
From: Inside Story
Is the Iraqi army ready to liberate Mosul?
Iraq’s prime minister says government forces and their allies will retake control of Mosul by the end of the year.
29 Aug 2016
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If Mosul were to fall tomorrow it would be a blow – but not a fatal blow – for ISIL.
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