Iraq Kurdish leader says time for Mosul 戦う／戦い to begin
Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani said Saturday that 準備s for the 操作／手術 to 奪い返す Mosul from jihadists have been 完全にするd and it is time for the 戦う／戦い to begin.
軍隊s from Iraq's 自治権のある Kurdish 地域 are 推定する／予想するd to play a major 役割 in the 戦う／戦い for Mosul, the country's second city, which has been held by the Islamic 明言する／公表する group since June 2014.
"The time has come to begin the 解放 of Mosul," a 地位，任命する on Barzani's 公式の／役人 Twitter account said.
Massud Barzani (centre) says it is time for the 戦う／戦い for Mosul to begin ?Safin Hamed (AFP)
"All 準備s for the 戦う／戦い to 解放する Mosul have been 完全にするd," he said in a 声明 on the Kurdish 地域の 大統領／総裁などの地位's website.
The 開始する，打ち上げる of the 操作／手術 is 推定する／予想するd to be 発表するd soon, but it will 示す only the start of a 戦う／戦い that is likely to be the most difficult and コンビナート／複合体 yet in the war against IS.
Once the 戦う／戦い is 発表するd, a 連合 of heterogenous and いつかs 競争相手 Iraqi 軍隊s will have to fight their way through IS defences to reach the city, in some 事例／患者s over distances of dozens of kilometres (miles).
Then they will likely 捜し出す to surround the city before 開始する，打ち上げるing an 強襲，強姦, 場内取引員／株価 the start of deadly street fighting with die-hard jihadists in a city with a large 非軍事の 全住民.
The 戦う／戦い may 誘発する a 人道的な 危機, with the 国際連合 警告 that up to one million people may be 追い出すd by the fighting as winter 始める，決めるs in.
