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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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