(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Only Iraqi troops will participate in the liberation of the country's cities, including Mosul, from ISIS terrorists, media reported Sunday citing a Defense Ministry official.
Earlier in the day, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said a joint campaign of the Iraqi army and Kurdish Peshmerga forces to liberate Mosul could begin on October 19.
"Troops participating in the plan to liberate Iraqi cities, including Mosul, are purely Iraqi," the Defense Ministry official told Anadolu news agency.
Mosul is Iraq’s second-biggest city and capital of the northwestern province of Nineveh. It has been occupied by ISIS since June 2014 and declared the Iraqi capital of the so-called ISIS caliphate.
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25 September 2016 - 15:12
News ID: 781370
Only Iraqi troops will participate in the liberation of the country's cities, including Mosul, from ISIS terrorists, media reported Sunday citing a Defense Ministry official.
