Battle of Mosul: the beginning and the results

Battle of Mosul: the beginning and the results

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When the battle to liberate Mosul  was begun with dawn on the seventeenth of October 2016  ,the aspects and features  of this battle have become clearly defined  and characterized as marked for the rest of their counterparts from the clashes waged by the Iraqi military and security forces in many areas of the places that already had a Daesh fighters in Anbar, Salahuddin and Diyala, and began  with an accurate  plan  and the strategy of several axes , they were three main axes noting that the most important of them are    axes of  (Khazar and Alkwyr) and with effective and field participation of a high coordination between the Kurdish and Iraqi forces,  and with a slow progress   on the southern axis starting from the junction  the district of Qayyarah on the international road that is  linking  between the provinces of Salaheddin –Nineveh  and the northern axis  in the Mosul Dam area  that has been marked by positive  cooperation and  progress between Iraqi forces and fighters of the  National crowd   called later on  by  (Guard  of Nineveh)  under the supervision of the former governor of Nineveh province.

 

And we can  mark the most important  pictures  and features of the first week of the beginning of the battle, which are  represented by the following:

 

1.The presence of  Iraqi military and security forces of the soldiers and officers of the divisions  (9-15-16) in all the fighting axes and within the territory of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, and this has happened for the first time after the departure of the last soldier from the province of Kirkuk after the June 2014 events and the control of fighters Daesh on  large parts of the city,  and the disagreement of the leadership of the region  to the military presence of the Baghdad government in the region since the beginning of the US invasion of Iraq.

 

2.The  military presence of Iraqi forces in the Kurdistan region was marked by  complete  cooperation , harmony and  coordinating on the ground with the political leaders of the Kurdish Peshmerga fighters  who were existed   in all areas of the Nineveh Plain.  Advanced and accelerated results have been achieved  in clear and  record time  on the fronts of the regions (Khazar and Alkwyr).

 

  1. Kurdish forces in collaboration with the division 15 managed from breaking into and entering the Hamdaniya district and with the participation of anti-terrorism forces after fierce and ferocious battles encountered in front of the fighters Daesh and thus tightened its control and extended its influence over all the district  and  surrounding areas of it   and this constitutes  progress  and achievement  , tactically important on the field because it is  to approximate the distance of this axis toward the city of Mosul by a distance of 10-12 kilometers.

 

  1. The clear cohesion and field plan drawn to encircle  the areas (Tlsagv -brtalh-Ba’shiqah)  was of great importance to the strengthening of the path of private  axes of  Hamdania  district , , and this has contributed to tighten control on  area of  Bartila and Tlsagv and thus put Kurdish forces against the new plan  of encircling   the  center of the district of  Ba’shiqah from main several  axes in order to control them because of their positive  consequences   on the progress of the battle and military confrontations.

 

5.The  clearest picture  in the first week of the Battle of Mosul is the (Turkish participation), which began by air bombardment of targets and places belong to al Daesh around the city of Mosul, and then followed by the actual participation of Turkish troops stationed on the high plateau in terms of  Ba’shiqah with a depth of 5 km and bordering on the center of the district  with  artillery  concentrated  fire and continuous on the headquarters and the presence of fighters Daesh which contributed effectively to  tighten   the control on  the center of the district  by Kurdish forces.

 

  1. the most important of what happened in the first days of the battle is  that the  Daesh fighters managed  to carry out  a unique operation to  control of several residential neighborhoods and targeting security headquarters in the center and south of the city of Kirkuk, the most important is to  control of the power station of Al-Dibis  and targeting the headquarters of the provincial police directorate and after that, the  security forces and special forces that were sent from the city of Sulaymaniyah and the involvement of the Turkmen crowd were managed to control and restore security and stability to the province, but this surprise showed the possibility of  Daesh fighters  in  the presence and making  security breach    and take advantage of the existing  security vacuum  in a number of areas around the city of Kirkuk.

 

7.The most important event   was  identified  by  the fact that fighters of Daesh  managed to attack  the center of AL-Rutba district  of the province of Anbar   and tighten  the control on it   from  three major axes, which  witnessed  the fall  of the first  division and the federal police and local police forces and  most of the residential areas and government buildings have been controlled  by Daesh.

 

The importance of  offensive   to  Al-Rutba   is  to send another message that it  could target places of strategic and tactical importance taking  advantage of it for  the media and his choice of Rutba as overseeing the Trebil area  and  ​​international high way line and adjoins  the borders of Jordan, and as it  relates to the strategic  area of  Nukhayib  and related to the  node of the road   160, which connects the international line  with Karbala and   important desert areas .

 

These are   the most prominent features of the first week of the battle , Will we see other surprises or  settlement  ahead of the battle  of  all its axes  this is what we will see in the coming days and weeks.

 

Rawabet Center for  Research and Strategic Studies