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Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Obama warns ‘Mosul will be difficult fight’
Barack Obama warns of a tough battle ahead as Iraqi forces backed by a US-led coalition advance on Mosul to wrest the city from the Islamic State group.
Obama says the push to liberate the northern city, the jihadists’ last stronghold in Iraq, now in its second day, was a “major step forward.”
“I am confident that [IS] will be defeated in Mosul and that will be another step toward their ultimate destruction,” he tells a joint news conference with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
“Mosul will be a difficult fight. There will be advances and there will be setbacks,” Obama says.
President Obama: “Mosul will be a difficult fight,” but “I am confident" ISIS will be defeated in Mosul as well https://t.co/uIwI9ccGS8
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) October 18, 2016
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