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Final Stages

Brett McGurk, center, the special presidential envoy for the global coalition against the Islamic State visits water treatment plant south of Mosul on Monday, May
15, 2017. The senior U.S. official says the fight to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group is approaching its “final stages.”
(AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
US Trumpets Mosul Gains as Iraq Says More Aid Needed

By SUSANNAH GEORGE more aid is needed to re- a meeting with Iraqi military the Islamic State group that ered to receive McGurk
Associated Press build on the heels of victo- and civilian officials at a is also referred to as IS, ISIS and U.S. Ambassador to
HAMAM AL-ALIL, Iraq (AP) ries against the extremists. water treatment plant near and ISIL. He described the Iraq Douglas Silliman were
— During a visit south of The Mosul fight is ap- the town of Hamam al-Alil. fight to retake Mosul, which dressed in suits, not fatigues
Mosul on Monday, a senior proaching its “final stages,” “The world is now see- was launched nearly seven and they had come asking
U.S. official praised territo- Brett McGurk, special presi- ing that (Iraqi) soldiers are months ago, as one of the for aid, not weapons and
rial gains against the Islam- dential envoy for the global completely destroying most difficult urban battles training.
ic State group in Iraq, but coalition against the IS, told Daesh,” McGurk said, us- since World War II.
local officials cautioned The Associated Press during ing the Arabic acronym for But the men who had gath- Continued on Page 9