On November 2, the Iraqi military and the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) continued operations against the ISIS terrorist group in the countryside of Mosul, the last ISIS major stronghold in Iraq. The PMU liberated a seies of villages in the southwestern coutnryside of Mosul.
While the joint anti-ISIS forces have already deployed in the eastern Mosul outskirts, they still need to reach the city from the southern and western directions before launching the full-scale storm of the main ISIS stroghold.
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