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Taking ISIS Stronghold Is Delayed Again

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U.S. and Iraqi officials have been promising to topple the Islamic State’s headquarters in Mosul for more than a year, but now the deadline is pushed back again.

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The war to reclaim Iraq’s second-largest city from the self-proclaimed Islamic State has been pushed back yet again, three Pentagon officials told The Daily Beast.

Where officials once hoped to launch the campaign to reclaim the city of Mosul by the end of year, officials believe a year from now is...

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