TIL Desk/World/Washington-US President Barack Obama has expressed confidence that Iraqi forces and their US-led allies would be able to drive out ISIS from its self-declared capital Mosul as tens of thousands of fighters advanced in an unprecedented offencive to liberate the city.
“We are seeing the Iraqi forces, with the support of the coalition that includes the US and Italy and other nations, moving forward and encircling Mosul. The intention is to drive ISIL out of what was its first major urban stronghold and what continues to be one of the key organisational and logistical and leadership hubs for ISIL,” Obama said.
“I am confident that we can succeed, although it is going to be a tough fight and a difficult fight. It is Iraqis who are doing the fighting. They are performing effectively and bravely and taking on significant casualties. “There will be ups and downs in this process, but my expectation is that ultimately it will be successful,” he told reporters yesterday at a joint news conference with visiting Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in the Rose Garden of the White House.
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