"Even the military equations are hard to pin down. Mosul is an immense battle zone — Iraq's second largest city that housed two and a half million before the war — being contested by a surprisingly small number of forces: perhaps 30,000 assembled on the government side, and no more than an estimated 3,000-5,000 ISIS fighters.
Kurdish forces retake ..."
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