MOSUL – Iraqi government forces, with air and ground support from the US-led coalition launched an offensive on Monday to drive Islamic State from the northern city of Mosul.
The amazing aspect of the attack was that Doha-based state-sponsored television Al Jazeera is live streaming the attack aimed at getting rid of ISIL, which is definitely not a child’s play.
Another journalist unfolded the tech aspect of 21st century where war was live streamed and Facebook was urging people to react to it.
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Mosul is Iraq’s second-largest city and the last urban center still under ISIL control in Iraq after a series of government offensives to reverse the group’s seizure of territory in 2014.
“The hour has come and the moment of great victory is near,” Haider al-Abadi, Iraq’s prime minister, said early on Monday in a speech broadcast on state TV, surrounded by the armed forces’ top commanders.
The bid to retake Mosul comes after the military, backed by armed tribes, militias and US-led coalition air strikes, regained much of the territory the fighters seized in 2014 and 2015, Al Jazeera reported.
