BISHKEK (TCA) — The Times of Central Asia presents to its readers Stratfor’s Global Intelligence, a weekly review of the most important events that happened in the world — from Europe to Middle East to Russia to Central Asia to Afghanistan to China and the Americas.
The Week That WasLet the Mosul Offensive BeginThe first phase in the battle for Mosul is imminent. As U.S.-backed Iraqi security forces and Kurdish peshmerga, Turkish-backed Sunni militias and Iranian-backed Shiite militias gradually converge on the Islamic State stronghold, the coalition will attempt to draw out and disperse Islamic State fighters for easier targeting while …read more
Source: The Times of Central Asia
