Iraqi forces breach Mosul city limits
Pushing into Mosul's eastern suburbs, special forces are weathering deadly counter-attacks as they gird for weeks of tough urban warfare.
Iraqi army soldiers guard the last government controlled checkpoint south of Mosul, Nov. 1, 2016. (FELIPE DANA/AP Photo)
BAZWAYA - Iraqi special forces broke into Mosul city limits from the east Tuesday, inaugurating a new phase of urban warfare in the offensive to reclaim northern Iraq’s largest city from the so-called Islamic State (IS) militant group.
By around noon, special forces units from Iraq’s Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) had penetrated the eastern boundary of the Gogjali suburb, after intense gun battles with IS militants, according to a CTS officer at a staging area in Bazwaya, about 3 kilometers east of the city limits.
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