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"Having already lost key cities &amp;#8212; such as Tikrit and Ramadi &amp;#8212; Mosul is the militant group&amp;#8217;s last bastion of power in the country. Simply put: Freeing Mosul would be the beginning of the end of ISIS in Iraq. Mosul is Iraq&amp;#8217;s biggest metropolis outside of Baghdad, and gaining control of the city was one of ISIS&amp;#8217; most significant strategic wins. When ISIS took Mosul in June 2014, it also took control of more than 2.5 million people, whom the group subjected to horrors &amp;#8212; public beheadings, throwing gay men to their deaths from the top of buildings and making [&amp;hellip;]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://naijaknow.com/why-the-battle-for-mosul-matters-in-the-fight-against-isis>