US defense secretary confident Daesh defeat in Mosul within a few days

Washington-Iraq Press -1 December: US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said that the Iraqi forces are making significant progress, in coordination with the coalition forces, in the direction of elimination of al Daesh in Mosul.

Carter said at the beginning of his meeting with French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Darren Hall at (Girls of the American Revolution) that he feels comfortable as a result of Iraq's determination to confront the difficult battle and said he was confident that the days of a few Daesh in Mosul.

He said Carter, who thanked France for its contribution to the military campaign against Daesh including the extension of the tour of the aircraft carrier (Charles de Gaulle) in the region that the Iraqi forces in Mosul approaching assistance from the United States, France and the rest of the international coalition to isolate the city and progress within it.

He said Carter, "The US and Iraqi effort and the effort of coalition members is proceeding according to the plan that had been developed in the last year on the Battle of Mosul, Carter said," This is exactly what we have planned, and we are discussing the next steps in seeking to provide a permanent defeat for Daesh who found himself under pressure from efforts all fronts at one time. "

He described the commander of the joint task force for the solution process inherent Stephen Townsend attack Mosul that he is doing very well, pointing to the progress of the Iraqi forces slowly in the eastern sector of the city, Townsend said, "The coordination between the Iraqi security forces with elements of the Peshmerga local forces is the latest evidence of a marked shift from before the internal security forces. "

Townsend said, "think carefully about the matter, less than two years, this was the army feel defeated and behind the walls of Baghdad, but now we have the anti-terror units elitism and considered the best trained and equipped in the internal security forces" .anthy (1)

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