The stench of death rises over Mosul's Old City

All this death and destruction for control of petroleum and/or in the name of some man-made belief (political-economic, religious) system.

Find alternatives to burning so much petroleum. How much longer can we continue to give the oil-igarchs, sheiks and kings so much control over the world?

A soldier who took part in the battle to retake Faruq says air strikes were an important factor because armoured vehicles were unable to be squeezed into the alleyways

so indescrinate bombing of civilians out of convenience.

Goodlucktoyou,

Actually it sounds like discriminate bombing not out of convenience but out of a desire not to be killed. However, yes, you are right, civilians are bombed along with IS fighters.

It's amazing how the Western media differently reports two similar events: storm of Mosul and storm of Aleppo. I still remember the deafening noise "stop the massacre at Aleppo". Where is uproar "stop the massacre at Mosul"?

I wish Iraqi and US soldiers at Mosul all the luck. ISIS must be eradicated. But also I wish Western politicians and media stop being such duplicitous weasels with their double standards.