US Iraq Envoy Hails Progress in Push to Liberate Mosul From IS

The Obama administration's top envoy to the Iraq coalition fighting Islamic State extremists says the military push to recapture the city of Mosul is progressing and that militants are increasingly on the defensive. Speaking Sunday in Jordan, envoy Brett McGurk also told reporters the West is winning the ideological war against IS with a round-the-clock propaganda campaign mounted by Facebook, YouTube and the governments of Jordan, Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates. "For...

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