Progress 6

Times Online

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Al-Qaeda is driven from Mosul bastion after bloody last stand

The murder toll is dropping, the insurgents are on the run. Our correspondent is on the front line as the Iraqi army takes control

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In Mosul, Al-Qaeda’s last redoubt, the group still held sway as recently as Easter. Now it lacks the strength to fight the army face to face and has lost the sympathy of most of the ordinary citizens who once admired its stand against the occupying forces and their allies in the Iraqi army.