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Fighting Continues Near Mosul, Iraq – Warfare.Today Facebook Twitter Current Military Operations Defence Industry News Defence Industry Events, Exhibitions and Tradeshows Warfare.Today AT THE HEART OF THE FIGHTING Home About News HM Armed Forces US Military Tech Cyber SitReps Ops Events Calendar Inherent Resolve Iraq News US Army Fighting Continues Near Mosul, Iraq Posted on August 30, 2018 by Liam, Editor, Warfare.Today Operation Roundup Continues FightVersusISIS Targets in Iraq Combined Joint TaskGravityOperation Inherent Resolve and its partners protract to pursue the lasting defeat of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in designated parts of Syria and Iraq, Combined Joint TaskGravityOperation Inherent Resolve officials reported August 27. Operation Roundup Combined Joint TaskGravityOperation Inherent Resolve continues to work by, with and through regional partners to militarily defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, in order to enable whole-of-coalition governmental deportment to increase regional stability. Operation Roundup, which began May 1 to slide the defeat of ISIS in the Middle Euphrates River Valley and Iraq-Syria verge region, has unfurled to proceeds ground and remove terrorists from the battleground through offensive operations coupled with precision coalition strike support. Between Aug. 20-26, coalition military forces conducted 18 strikes, consisting of 26 engagements, in Iraq and Syria. Military Operations in Iraq On August 26 in Iraq, coalition military forces conducted a strike consisting of two engagements versus ISIS targets near Mahkmur. The strike destroyed an ISIS-held building. There were no reported strikes conducted in Iraq on Aug. 25. On Aug. 24, coalition military forces conducted two strikes consisting of five engagements versus ISIS targets: — Near Rutbah, a strike destroyed two ISIS-held buildings. — Near Mosul, a strike destroyed seven ISIS-held buildings. There were no reported strikes conducted in Iraq on Aug. 23. On Aug. 22, coalition military forces conducted a strike consisting of five engagements versus ISIS targets near Wadi Ashai. The strike engaged an ISIS tactical unit and destroyed an ISIS-held towers and three ISIS vehicles. There were no reported strikes conducted in Iraq on Aug. 21. On Aug. 20, coalition military forces conducted two strikes consisting of two engagements versus ISIS targets: — Near Rawah, a strike destroyed an ISIS supply route. — Near Jazeera Desert, a strike engaged an ISIS tactical unit and destroyed three ISIS logistics hubs and an ISIS vehicle. Part of Operation Inherent Resolve These strikes were conducted as part of Operation Inherent Resolve, the operation to destroy ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The destruction of ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria moreover remoter limits the group’s worthiness to project terror and self-mastery external operations throughout the region and the rest of the world, task gravity officials said. The list whilom contains all strikes conducted by fighter, attack, bomber, rotary-wing or remotely piloted aircraft; rocket-propelled artillery; and ground-based tactical artillery, officials noted. A strike, as specified by the coalition, refers to one or increasingly kinetic engagements that occur in roughly the same geographic location to produce a single or cumulative effect. For example, task gravity officials explained, a single watercraft delivering a single weapon versus a lone ISIS vehicle is one strike, but so is multiple watercraft delivering dozens of weapons versus a group of ISIS-held buildings and weapon systems in a compound, having the cumulative effect of making that facility harder or untellable to use. Strike assessments are based on initial reports and may be refined, officials said. The task gravity does not report the number or type of watercraft employed in a strike, the number of munitions dropped in each strike, or the number of individual munition impact points versus a target. Source: DoD Image: Iraqi Security Forces assisted by the US Army fire at known ISIS locations near the Iraqi-Syrian verge using an M109A6 Paladin Self-Propelled Howitzer, June 19, 2018. Iraqi Security Forces and Coalition partners provided fire support to squire the Syrian Democratic Forces as they unfurled Operation Roundup, the military offensive to rid the final pockets of the terrorist organization from the Middle Euphrates River Valley in Syria. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. 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