Iraq liberates Mosul

Videos

 * Live feed, Ruptly TV, October 17, 2016
 * Iraqi HUMVEEs hit by 2 IED (towards video end), posted October 17, 2016
 * Video titled "Iraqi 'Night Hunters MI-28 (and Iraqi planes) destroyed IS convoy, heading to Syria from Iraq"-Rusvesna, October 21, 2016
 * IS launches counter-attack in Kirkuk- "Reuters", October 21, 2016 (+BBC report).
 * Iraqi HUMVEEs hit by 2 IED (towards video end), posted October 17, 2016
 * IS destroys Abrams tank, posted October 24, 2016
 * Storm of Mosul, documentary film by Alexander Rogatkin, Russia 24, 3 Dec. 2016 (Battle for Mosul would be more accurate title).

ISIS escape plan

 * US-Saudi agreement to allow ISIS retreat from Mosul - Iraqi News, October 12, 2016
 * How Iran closed the Mosul 'horseshoe' and changed Iraq war - Reuters, December 7, 2016
 * ''The original campaign strategy called for Iraqi forces to close in around Mosul in a horseshoe formation, blocking three fronts but leaving open the fourth - to the west of the city leading to Islamic State territory in neighboring Syria.
 * ''That model, used to recapture several Iraqi cities from the ultra-hardline militants in the last two years, would have left fighters and civilians a clear route of escape and could have made the Mosul battle quicker and simpler.
 * ''But Tehran, anxious that retreating fighters would sweep back into Syria just as Iran's ally President Bashar al-Assad was gaining the upper hand in his country's five-year civil war, wanted Islamic State crushed and eliminated in Mosul.