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Update for Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Reuters reports that the original plan for the assault on Mosul was to leave an escape route open to the west, so that IS fighters and civilians could flee to Syria. That would allow Iraq to retake the city with fewer casualties. However, Iran persuaded the Iraqis to allow Shiite militia to close the escape route, forcing IS to fight to the death. (Assuming surrender is not in their range of options.) The result is the very hard fight we see now.
Iraqi forces capture additional territory in Mosul, but an overnight counterattack by IS in the southeast of the city is said to have inflicted heavy casualties.
Civilians flee Tal Abta west of Mosul as miiltias launch an assault on the town.
Desperate residents of Mosul brawl over newly delivered aid.
Source: http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/2016/12/update-for-wednesday-december-7-2016.html
