Mosul delays will complicate Iraqi politics
The Mosul offensive is proceeding at a slow pace, with significant military, humanitarian and political implications
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- Slowing factors
- Fallout of delay
- Casualty aversion
- Infrastructure destruction
- Greater displacement
- PMU involvement
- Internal divisions
- Trump involvement
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_350.jpg "An Iraqi soldier walks among the wreckage of damaged buildings due to frontline battles in the neighbourhood of Intisar, eastern Mosul (Reuters/Ahmed Jadallah)")