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Coalition Strikes Destroy ISIL Boats Fleeing From East Mosul
« on: January 22, 2017, 10:33:01 am »
Coalition Strikes Destroy ISIL Boats Fleeing From East Mosul

From a U.S. Central Command News Release
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SOUTHWEST ASIA, Jan. 21, 2017 — In three days of operations that began Jan. 18, coalition forces struck 90 watercraft and three barges on the Tigris River in Mosul, Iraq, U.S. Central Command officials reported today. 

Many of these watercraft were being used to ferry Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant fighters and equipment across the river from East Mosul to West Mosul in an attempt to escape the Iraqi security forces as they continued to clear the remaining portions of East Mosul, officials said.
U.S. Central Command

Iraqi security forces secured the Eastern bank of all five bridges across the Tigris River in Mosul during the past week of clearing operations, they added, making it difficult for ISIL fighters to flee.

https://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1056011/coalition-strikes-destroy-isil-boats-fleeing-from-east-mosul
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