Rockyrd
03-07-2017, 01:19 PM
Some good news on the fight against ISIS...making headway and lets hope it continues....
"BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces trying to reclaim Mosul penetrated the western part of the city on Tuesday, retaking a bridge and several public buildings during heavy clashes with the Islamic State, officials said.
Civilians reported that the bombardment and gunfire were the heaviest since Feb. 19, the beginning of the operation to retake the western part of the city — the country’s second-largest, where roughly a million people are trapped and living in desperate conditions."
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/world/middleeast/mosul-iraq-isis.html
"The Islamic State appeared to suffer an important setback on Monday when American-backed militia fighters in Syria seized the main route that connects Raqqa, the Islamic State’s de facto capital, to its territory in southeastern Deir al-Zour Province.
The development essentially severed the last remaining access for supply deliveries to Raqqa and may have eliminated an escape route for Islamic State fighters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/world/middleeast/isis-syria-raqqa-siege.html
This concerns me greatly and at least some statement should be made by the USA....
"Twelve people from the embattled city of Mosul, including a 2-month-old baby, have been treated for suspected exposure to a blistering chemical agent, medics said Saturday, as Islamic State militants strike back at government-held neighborhoods while trying to hold off advancing government forces.
The patients, who were being treated in a hospital in the northern Kurdish city of Irbil, displayed symptoms of a chemical attack, including blisters, burns, respiratory problems, irritation to the eyes and vomiting. They described three separate attacks with rockets carrying gas over the past week on neighborhoods in eastern Mosul recaptured by government forces.
ISIS militants accused of using 'blistering chemical agent' in attacks in Mosul - Chicago Tribune (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-isis-chemical-attack-mosul-20170304-story.html)
We are in better shape in the last year, it appears than we have been. And the terrorist attacks have basically been reduced to isolated loner attacks.
The last one in this country was at Ohio State and in the world Afghanastan.
"BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces trying to reclaim Mosul penetrated the western part of the city on Tuesday, retaking a bridge and several public buildings during heavy clashes with the Islamic State, officials said.
Civilians reported that the bombardment and gunfire were the heaviest since Feb. 19, the beginning of the operation to retake the western part of the city — the country’s second-largest, where roughly a million people are trapped and living in desperate conditions."
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/world/middleeast/mosul-iraq-isis.html
"The Islamic State appeared to suffer an important setback on Monday when American-backed militia fighters in Syria seized the main route that connects Raqqa, the Islamic State’s de facto capital, to its territory in southeastern Deir al-Zour Province.
The development essentially severed the last remaining access for supply deliveries to Raqqa and may have eliminated an escape route for Islamic State fighters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/world/middleeast/isis-syria-raqqa-siege.html
This concerns me greatly and at least some statement should be made by the USA....
"Twelve people from the embattled city of Mosul, including a 2-month-old baby, have been treated for suspected exposure to a blistering chemical agent, medics said Saturday, as Islamic State militants strike back at government-held neighborhoods while trying to hold off advancing government forces.
The patients, who were being treated in a hospital in the northern Kurdish city of Irbil, displayed symptoms of a chemical attack, including blisters, burns, respiratory problems, irritation to the eyes and vomiting. They described three separate attacks with rockets carrying gas over the past week on neighborhoods in eastern Mosul recaptured by government forces.
ISIS militants accused of using 'blistering chemical agent' in attacks in Mosul - Chicago Tribune (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-isis-chemical-attack-mosul-20170304-story.html)
We are in better shape in the last year, it appears than we have been. And the terrorist attacks have basically been reduced to isolated loner attacks.
The last one in this country was at Ohio State and in the world Afghanastan.