The long-anticipated attack could begin this week, and will aim to recapture Iraq’s second-largest city from the militant group. WSJ, ByTAMER EL-GHOBASHY and ALI A. NABHAN, Oct. 16, 2016: ERBIL, Iraq—At recent Friday prayers in a Mosul mosque, the Islamic State-appointed preacher eschewed the traditional sermon extolling the group’s virtues for a plea for local support against a […]

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