Don’t expect keeping a retaken Mosul to be a cakewalk

If past experience is any indication, the city’s Sunni Arabs may not take kindly to our Kurdish allies.

U.S. soldiers patrol through the rubble-laden streets of Mosul, Iraq, April 1, 2008. Iraqi pro-government forces are looking now to retake the city from Daesh, which has held it since 2014.U.S. Army photograph by Spc. John Crosby

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

October 19, 2016

OTTAWA—With Daesh having been pushed out of Fallujah and Ramadi, everyone knows that the next big allied assault will be to recapture Mosul, and there were reports early this week that it had just started. Since Daesh’s lightning offensive in the spring of 2014 into the Sunni Triangle, this urba...

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