US Troops on Front Lines in Iraq’s Mosul Invasion

by Scott Horton | Oct 18, 2016

US Troops on Front Lines in Iraq’s Mosul Invasion

by Scott Horton | Oct 18, 2016

The U.S.-Iraqi Kurdish-Iraqi Shia Army-Iraqi Shia militia-Iraqi Sunni militia-Turkish invasion of the Islamic State’s eastern stronghold of Mosul is on. Thousands of U.S. special forces are on the front lines.

Jason Ditz, New Editor of Antiwar.com, has the details, as always.

And here are live updates from the generally reliable Iraqi Kurdish news outlet, Rudaw.

UN warns of lack of resources for refugees here.

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Scott Horton is director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com and host of the Scott Horton Show from ScottHorton.org. He is the author of four books. He has conducted more than 6,000 interviews since 2003. Scott lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, Larisa Alexandrovna Horton.

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