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Iraqi special operations troops searched a compound in Gogjali, an eastern district of Mosul, to clear out any remaining Islamic State militants on Wednesday. They killed at least eight. (Associated Press)

Mosul assault on hold as Iraqi troops clear territory, reinforce lines

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

DISPLACED: Refugees from the Islamic State campaign to establish a caliphate in Iraq and Syria are leaving the area as the Iraqi army continues its offensive to retake Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, back from the terror army. A U.S. commander said the campaign for the city will be an "engineering war." (Associated Press Photographs)

ISIS seeks to thwart Mosul operation with IEDs

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Turkey deploys tanks, military vehicles to border with Iraq

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U.S. soldiers (left) participate in a training mission with Iraqi army soldiers outside Baghdad on May 27, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

The Latest: UN: Violence kills 1,792 Iraqis in October

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Recent editorials published in Iowa newspapers

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Iraqi Federal Police officers observe as air and ground strikes hit the town of Shura, some 30 kilometers south of Mosul, Iraq, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016. Iraqi troops approaching Mosul from the south advanced into Shura on Saturday after a wave of US led airstrikes and artillery shelling against Islamic State positions inside town. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

Iraqi special forces near Mosul from east in dawn assault

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

U.S. soldiers (left) participate in a training mission with Iraqi army soldiers outside Baghdad on May 27, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

The Latest: Iraq premier urges IS in Mosul to surrender

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In this Wednesday Oct 26, 2016 photo, Bakr Mahmoud Mahdi, a presenter at the private Nineveh TV talks to callers on his live studio show, in Irbil, Iraq. Mahdi prepares to go live with a show called “Freedom Studio,” which he says allows victims of war to vent. Television stations in Iraq have been hosting call-in shows that offer a rare line of communication between Mosul residents who have been displaced and those still residing in the Islamic State-held city. But as Iraqi forces push closer to the city and the militants viciously enforce a ban on phones and the internet, voices from inside Mosul are falling silent. (AP Photo/Fay Abuelgasim)

Iraq TV call-in show gives glimpse inside IS-held Mosul

By FAY ABUELGASIM - Associated Press

The Latest: Parked car bomb kills 10 in Baghdad neighborhood

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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, OCT. 29-30 - In this Friday, Oct. 21, 2016 photo, Tami Silicio poses in Seattle, with the photographer she made as an air cargo worker in 2004 that shows flag-draped coffins being transported back to the United States. The image was recently named one of the most influential photographs of all time by Time magazine. (Johnny Andrews/The Seattle Times via AP)

Photo of fallen service members is 1 for the history books

By HAL BERNTON - Associated Press

U.S. soldiers (left) participate in a training mission with Iraqi army soldiers outside Baghdad on May 27, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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Displaced people walk on a road in the village of Al Hut, some 40 kilometers south of Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016. The U.N. says it is closely monitoring the Mosul operation and the treatment of internally displaced civilians, or IDPs. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

U.N. preparing for possible chemical attack in Iraq’s Mosul

By Joseph Krauss and Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

Smoke rises as Iraq's elite counterterrorism forces attack Islamic State positions, in the village of Tob Zawa, outside Mosul, Monday, Oct. 24, 2016. A convoy of special forces advanced toward the village of Tob Zawa, Monday, encountering roadside bombs and trading heavy fire with the militants. Loudspeakers on the Humvees blared Iraqi patriotic music as they pushed toward the village. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Turkish-trained militias in the fight for Mosul, U.S. eyes larger role for country in Iraq

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

An Iraqi special forces soldier clutches his weapon as he prepares for an offensive to retake Mosul from Islamic State militants at a camp near Khazer, Iraq, on Friday, Oct. 14, 2016. The US-led coalition says they are increasing airstrikes in and around the militant-held city of Mosul as Iraqi ground forces are building up ahead of a planned operation to retake the city. (AP Photo/Adam Schreck)

The Latest: Iraqi forces push IS out of town near Mosul

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U.S. soldiers (left) participate in a training mission with Iraqi army soldiers outside Baghdad on May 27, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Iraqis find bomb factory, tunnels on long road to Mosul

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016 file photo, youths ride bicycles next to a burning oil well in Qayara, about 31 miles (50 km) south of Mosul, Iraq. The Islamic State group has pioneered brutally innovative tactics and launched diversionary attacks that have shocked its opponents, and now many fear it has more surprises in store as Iraqi forces close in on Mosul. Last weeks assault on the northern city of Kirkuk offers a glimpse at the kind of asymmetrical response it might mount as Iraqi forces close in on Mosul, its last major urban bastion in the country. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic, File)

Obama’s stupid Iraq policy

By Bruce Fein

"We're seeking the lasting defeat of ISIL. And a lasting defeat of ISIL can't be achieved by outsiders. It can only be achieved by those who live there," Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said. (Associated Press)

U.S., allies shift focus to ISIS capital Raqqa in quest for ‘lasting defeat’

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Illustration on the results of defeating the Islamic State by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

The Battle of Mosul

By Clifford D. May

FILE -- In this Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016 file photo, Iraqi troops guard a checkpoint near the village of Awsaja, Iraq, as smoke from fires lit by Islamic State militants at oil wells and a sulfur plant fills the air. In the week since Iraq launched an operation to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group, its forces have pushed toward the city from the north, east and south, battling the militants in a belt of mostly uninhabited towns and villages. In the heavily mined approaches to the city they met with fierce resistance, as IS unleashed suicide truck bombs, rockets and mortars. (AP Photo/Adam Schreck, File)

The Latest: US denies coalition struck Iraqi mosque

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