The Pentagon says the campaign to liberate Mosul is a "decisive moment" in the anti-ISIS campaign.
Iraqi security forces have begun efforts to drive ISIS out of the country's second largest city.
Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS is assisting in the operation but that Iraqi forces were leadig the charge...
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Cook said that US forces helped prepared Iraq troops for the Mosul offensive....
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Cook was pressed on whether US troops would enter the city on the ground...
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