SOURCE: The Guardian
6-22-17
tags: Mosul, ISIS, Great Mosque of al Nuri
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6-22-17
Destroying Great Mosque of al-Nuri 'is Isis declaring defeat'
Breaking Newstags: Mosul, ISIS, Great Mosque of al Nuri
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The Iraqi prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, has said the destruction of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul is an admission by the militants that they are losing the fight for the country’s second-largest city.
One of Islam’s most venerated sites, the mosque has been destroyed by explosions as Iraqi forces battled Islamic State fighters who had holed up nearby.
“Daesh’s bombing of the al-Hadba minaret and the al-Nuri mosque is a formal declaration of their defeat,” Abadi said, using the Arabic acronym for Isis.
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