Allied plodding advance in Mosul raises questions

You can call Daesh evil incarnate, but not cowardly. Given their relatively small numbers, they must still have support among Mosul’s Sunni Arab population.

Brigadier-General Shane Brennan, commander of the Canadian Armed Forces’ Joint Task Force-Iraq, was among the military and foreign ministry officials who on Jan. 26 updated reporters on Canada’s mission in Iraq to fight Daesh. Photograph courtesy of DND

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

February 1, 2017

OTTAWA—On Jan. 26, the Canadian Armed Forces staged a news teleconference to update journalists on the activities of the Canadian soldiers deployed to battle Daesh (also known as ISIS, ISIL, and Islamic State) in Iraq. The only problem is that no one from Canadian Special Operations Forces Command...

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