Civil Conflict Thread

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http://imgur.com/GdeAtWY

Progression of the kidney bean Oct 1 - 10th.

Hopefully this battle can end soon so all those people stop suffering.

The Iraqis are preparing for their attack on the city of Mosul in Iraq, the largest city in the hands of ISIS
http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/65-tho...on-battle/

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The largest battle since WWII has now begun.

May god have mercy on the Kurds and Iraqi men and women.

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https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/upr...tack-isis/

civilians take to the streets today in Mosul to reclaim their city from their invaders after the army's offensive to take the city began yesterday

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8 hour ceasefire to begin tomorrow to give the civilians of Aleppo one last chance to get out of the city before the next offensive begins

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Current progress in the Mosul Offensive. Orange and dark pink are newly acquired territory since the offensive's beginning. Yellow are the kurds, pink are Iraq and black are ISIS.

The Iraqi and Kurdish military so far have been widely successful against their ISIS counterparts.

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I heard this battle could take weeks or months

That just seems so crazy long for an offensive

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I heard this battle could take weeks or months

That just seems so crazy long for an offensive

Currently they're making incredible gains, just because it's the outer-city limits. Once they hit the city proper, stuff will get pretty messy. There is HEAVY use of vehicle-based IEDs that ISIS have been using in the battle these past couple of days. Those are intimidating, simply because of the amount of damage one person could do. Since the offensive, there has been a lot of casualties already from them. Not only that, ISIS probably has booby trapped a majority of the city. It's going to be a real slog fest for the Iraqis and Kurds, but they have no choice but to take the city. There is no backing down.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20161...ul-convoy/

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i heard something about this being backed by imperialistic european forces

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I watched a bbc video and I think I saw one of those guys wearing the ghost mask from call of duty

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i heard something about this being backed by imperialistic european forces

Since they're being helped by factions from Hezbolla I find it pretty funny the US is helping

Not only that, Iraq is outright refusing corridors for civilians after the US demanded it. 

Im surprised we are still helping after its obvious we're not making many friends.

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infighting between militant groups in the FSA while another just ups and leaves the area it was defending

I am seriously surprised that they have lasted this long

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Does that mean isil is winning the battle

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ISIL is getting its shit kicked in by the Syrian government, the fsa, the kurds, turkey, iran, iraq, egypt and many other groups, losing a good 40% of their territory in less then a year

So yeah they're winning

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Also theyre calling themselves Daesh now

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I thought Daesh was an insult