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US general says IS leaders ‘abandoning’ Mosul
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIslamic State group leaders have been fleeing Mosul as US-backed local forces close in on the jihadists’ last Iraqi stronghold, a US general says Wednesday.
“We are telling Daesh that their leaders are abandoning them. We’ve seen a movement out of Mosul,” US Army Major General Gary Volesky says in a video briefing from Baghdad, using an Arabic acronym for IS.
Volesky predicts that foreign fighters will end up forming a large contingent of jihadists remaining in the city, as they have nowhere else to go.
— AFP
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