{"id":320,"date":"2016-10-19T20:37:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T03:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2016-10-19T20:37:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T03:37:46","slug":"iraqi-army-with-kurdish-peshmerga-pressing-isil-in-mosul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi army with Kurdish Peshmerga pressing ISIL in Mosul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mosul, Iraq, October 19 &#8212; Major offensive operation to retake Mosul is in full swing with Iraqi army leading the offensive. Meanwhile Kurdish Peshmerga force annihilated\u00a0Islamic State (ISIL\/Daesh) assault on city of Sinjar. Xinhua reports 47 militants neutralized.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article at <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2016-10\/20\/c_135767213.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Xinhua<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our possible interpretation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although Mosul is considered to be one of the last ISIL\/Daesh strongholds in the region, retaking the city does not necessarily mean ISIL defeat. The media announcements ( essentially\u00a0operational non-secrecy ) could possibly allow for strategic retreat of ISIL forces to coordinate future\u00a0counter-attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mosul, Iraq, October 19 &#8212; Major offensive operation to retake Mosul is in full swing with Iraqi army leading the offensive. Meanwhile Kurdish Peshmerga force annihilated\u00a0Islamic State (ISIL\/Daesh) assault on city of Sinjar. Xinhua reports 47 militants neutralized. Read the full article at Xinhua. Our possible interpretation Although Mosul&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}