Iraqi military and police forces said Monday that they have uncovered a mass grave near a small town south of the Islamic State-held city of Mosul. Initial reports say 100 bodies were found, many of them decapitated. – Washington Post Now, in the fourth week of a U.S.-backed alliance’s pincer-like move to retake the northern Iraqi city, the whereabouts of the Islamic State chieftain are unknown – though a rare audio recording posted online last week by the militant group and attributed to him urged followers to fight to the death. – Los Angeles Times The Institute for the Study of War has a good map of where the Iraqi Army, special forces, and Kurdish Peshmerga are in and around the city here. Everyone loves to keep tabs on where Iranian Quds Force leader Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani is. And reports out of Iraq say he’s there, despite the fact that he’s banned from international travel under United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231. The Long War Journal flags a report out of Iraq where Akram al Kabi, head of an Iranian-backed militia, claims he’s seen Soleimani. As the LWJ says, “Soleimani was purportedly spotted near Mosul on Oct. 17, the day of the siege’s launch, and was confirmed to be in the Kurdistan Regional Government territory on Oct. 23, before flying to Tehran on Oct. 28 to visit the families of Iranian soldiers killed in Syria. Confirmed photos of Soleimani in Iraq since his visit to Tehran have yet to emerge.”
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