Before the start of the Battle of Mosul, members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) burned more than a dozen oil wells in the city of Al-Qayyarah to obstruct the vision of the coalition forces led by the United States. The Iraqi...
Byron Smith: Mosul Offensive 2016
Nearly two years since the Islamic State took the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, the Iraqi Army launched an offensive to wrest the city back from the insurgency in October of 2016. While the forward push of the Iraqi Security Forces has slowed down after a month of fighting,...