IRAQI FORCES ENTER MOSUL CITY LIMITS, GAINING GROUND IN ISIS FIGHT“Today Qaraqosh is free of Daesh,” he said, using another term for ISIS. ISIS TARGETS CHILDREN IN MOSUL WITH TEDDY BEAR BOMBSHomes along the town's main road were charred and riddled with bullet holes. Iraqi troops, after two years, have also entered the outskirts of Mosul. Mosul is the final ISIS urban bastion in Iraq, the city from which it drove out a larger but demoralized Iraqi army in 2014 and declared a "caliphate" that stretched into Syria. Its loss would be a major defeat for the jihadis, but with the closest Iraqi troops still some 6 miles from the city center, much ground remains to be covered.

Source: Fox News November 01, 2016 17:26 UTC