Tanks of Iraq's 9th division rumble into Mosul

[WorldNews]

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Every shot sent shock waves all around and left ears ringing: the tanks of the Iraqi army's 9th armoured division were advancing through the streets of Mosul's Intisar neighbourhood. When Iraqi forces finally punched into the streets of Mosul in the past few day, the three-week-old offensive to wrest the city back from the Islamic State ground entered a new phase. In Intisar, a modest neighbourhood on the eastern edge of Mosul, civilians kept as low a profile a possible.

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