Battle of Mosul beginnings and results 10

Battle of Mosul beginnings and results 10

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These days , the  military confrontations   between fighters Daesh   and security and military forces   in the Iraqi  Center of   Mosul city of its both left and right coasts  are entering  its  five month  after Abadi announced  its beginning  in October 17-10-2016 as  the first phase which  has witnessed  strong confrontations with members of the organization .

The nature of the events and  its  acceleration in the northern city of Mosul threatens of  social , environmental and  political crises negatively reflected on the lives of the citizen in the city and his  dream to live in dignity and regain his  freedom and to start a new phase  to restore his confidence in himself and make it look with optimism for the coming days, but what we see and we touch as a matter of fact  may not happen due to many problems and the facts and field actions and behaviors that began to emerge on the nature of the daily deal for both parties ( security forces and Daesh)  which have raised the anger of residents in the city and moved in  them    the repercussions of fear and apprehension of future events , but made them  to feel  of a clear disappointment on how to remedy their  situation in the near future and the fact of  the promises that launched from Baghdad through a lot of official, political and military statements  of many leaders representing government institutions.
The nature of the events and the acceleration of the facts in dealing with the coming battle  of  right coast can be summarized as follows:

  1. The use of drones weapon  by elements Daesh  in the face of security and military forces on the left coast region and the targeting of public places where it  has become a field and military phenomenon that shake the nature of the status   of    the area of  the left coast  ;  the use of drones   daily   caused  many human and material losses in life and property of citizens and hit the  sites   the presence of military units.
  1. The continuation of infiltration process by using riverboat across the Tigris River to the military targets determined by the elements Daesh and engagement for several hours with members of the military forces  located in the residential neighborhoods  near  the bank of the Tigris River , noting   without  the intervention of the international coalition aircrafts and  facing them and managed to  stop Daesh fighters from crossing the river , the attacking force  would have managed  to take root  and stay in these neighborhoods for several days and spread terror and fear in the hearts of citizens and return to  the recent past.
  1. The continuation of mutual shelling by the Iraqi military forces and fighters Daesh; which causes heavy losses among citizens especially  that all the targeted objectives located within residential neighborhoods, thereby hindering  of citizens’ daily movement and  raises concerns  of  his life and his presence and increases his ordeal in the face of the existing situation in the city of Mosul.
  1. The intensification of economic crisis and the scarcity of food and lack of medical supplies and the poor of preventive health measures in the areas of the right coast, where residents began to face a social catastrophe represented  by  the need of  a lot of  a decent and honorable families for the   life-sustaining  supplies of food, medicine and drinking water.
  1. The poor procedures , requirements and the security plans drawn up by the security leaders after the completion of the tasks by military forces   in the area of the  left coast , where  it has began  the theft and exposure of public  and private money  and the acquisition of a lot of machinery and equipment for the departments of service and government institutions, and to control  it and smuggle  them out of the  city by the  elements calculated  on   military and security forces without any deterrent and  a citizen has become to  suffer of  the difficulty of preserving of his  life and property and  fears of the increase of  the case and return to the past.
  1. It had began the operations of targeting public places and checkpoints established by field security leaders on the left coast center by car bombs and explosive belts   , here  the  citizen asks  where are  the security forces and  its organs and how  these vehicles are a arrived  and the booby trapping of the vehicle   in areas supposedly completed of the control of it from  the security and military  aspects.
  1. The most prominent event is the confrontation that took place on the outskirts of Tal Afar’s Nineveh province, where elements of the popular crowd and its leaders were targeted  in a large and fierce confrontation by Daesh fighters who have used for the first time a  armor   weapon   and face the places and the headquarters of the popular crowd with tanks, mortars and target acquisition  of  many places  of them that  caused heavy losses to their equipment and their fighters, and this  formed of a new turning point in shaping  of the next battle, and the nature and determine the methods and quality of   weapons used in it , and the potential surprises.

The unity of the Iraqi Studies 
Translated by : Mudhaffar al-Kusairi

Rawabet Center for  Research and Strategic Studies