ISIS/ISIL conflict in Syria/Iraq (No OpEd, No Politics)

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Turkey about to open a second front.

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WORLD NEWS | Tue Nov 1, 2016 | 10:23am EDT
Turkish military deploy tanks, military vehicles to Iraqi border area: sources

Turkey's military has begun deploying tanks and other armored vehicles to the town of Silopi near the Iraqi border, in a move the defense minister said on Tuesday was related to the fight against terrorism and developments across the border.

Fikri Isik said Turkey had "no obligation" to wait behind its borders and would do what was necessary if Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants took a foothold in northwest Iraq's Sinjar region, around 115 km (71 miles) south of Silopi.

"We will not allow the threat to Turkey to increase," he told broadcaster A Haber in an interview.

The army deployment, disclosed by military sources, came after President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Turkey was aiming to reinforce its troops in Silopi.

Photos from the sources showed a long column of vehicles, including tanks, tank rescue vehicles and construction vehicles in single file on a dual carriageway.

The deployment coincides with an Iraqi operation to drive Islamic State from the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and after Iraqi Shi'ite militias launched a related offensive to push the jihadists out of the town of Tal Afar further west.

Erdogan said on Saturday Ankara would have a "different response" for Shi'ite militias if they "cause terror" in Tal Afar, home to a sizeable ethnic Turkmen population with historic and cultural ties to Turkey.

Sinjar, where Ankara believes the PKK is developing a presence, is situated some 50 km west of Tal Afar.

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Sirnak province, where Silopi is located, is also one of the main areas of conflict between Turkey's army and the PKK, whose main bases are in the mountains of northeast Iraq.

Designated a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, the PKK has waged a three-decade insurgency against the Turkish state for Kurdish autonomy. More than 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict.

Largely Sunni Muslim Turkey and the Shi'ite-dominated central government in Iraq are at loggerheads about the presence of Turkish troops at Iraq's Bashiqa camp and about Ankara's demand to take part in the U.S.-backed Mosul operation.

Turkey says it has a responsibility to protect ethnic Turkmens and Sunni Arabs in the area around Mosul, once part of the Ottoman Empire. It fears both PKK militants and Shi'ite militias, which the Iraqi army has relied on in the past, will be used in the campaign and stoke ethnic bloodletting.

(Reporting by Tulay Karadeniz and Can Sezer; Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by David Dolan and Gareth Jones)
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Iraqi Map Update: Anti-ISIS Forces Readying to Wide-Scale Storm of Mosul

On November 1, Iraqi forces liberated
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in the Mosul eastern countryside and seized the nearby state-TV buidling. Gogjali is highly integrated into Mosul’s infrastructure and located at an important highway leading to the ISIS-controlled city. The village will likely become a foothold for the storm of Mosul from the eastern direction. On November 2, Iraqi forces, supported by the US-led coalition, continued operations in the area. The wide-scale storm of Mosul is expected to be launched within a week.

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describing the last holding part of Government part of 1070 Apartments (three group of buildings, shown in yellow, blue, and red, surrounded by barrier(s) agains VBIEDs, and supplied through two "bulwarks" from 3000 Apartments) ... I might've hoped somebody would've understood there's no such a thing as "advancing to virtually the entire apartment complex" in the situation there's OPFOR still holding in it and shooting into flanks of any movement around such an apartment complex etc.
 
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They have also M-777 and Himars.
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A battery of M-777s and a few High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) multiple rocket launchers from the 2nd brigade of the 101st Airborne Division were transferred to the region as well. The French military helped with four self-propelled 155-mm “Cesar” howitzers.
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Normaly 6 M-777, 6 M-109A6 and 6 HIMARS.
But 101th have only M-777 no HIMARS
 
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Mosul offensive

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Coalition have a total of about 30 - 40000 troops, an Army Corps for size.
ISIS have about 5 - 10000 initialy.

Equivalent 3 Iraqi Divisions engaged : 15th ID full, 9th Arm have 3 Br, 16th ID (-) 2 Br, 1st ID 1 Brig.

In more the CTS is a SF Brigade with about 4-5 Bat SF or Cdos. motorised units with much HUMVEE with MG in a turret.

Iraqi Police have also some special units.

In more some allies units especialy Kurds, Western SF several companies for size. etc...

An Iraqi Division do about 10000 pers. in 3 Brigades and the 9th Armored have 2 Armored Brigades with M1A1, T-72, M-113, BMP-1 and 2 Mech Br. M113/BTR4, T-72, BTR-80, EE9 plus support units about 15000 pers.
 
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