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Iraqi Forces Just Began The Hardest Fight Of Their Lives

After months of planning and preparation, the operation to retake Iraq’s second largest city of Mosul from the Islamic State finally began Thursday. While U.S. forces provide support from the air, Kurdish Peshmerga forces and predominantly Shia Muslim Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) will make up the ground contingent. “The first phase of the Fatah [Conquest] Operation…