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Obama Administration Setting Conditions to Retake Mosul, Success Up to Iraq

© REUTERS / Kevin LamarqueUS President Barack Obama announces steps the administration is taking to reduce gun violence while delivering a statement in the East Room of the White House in Washington January 5, 2016.
US President Barack Obama announces steps the administration is taking to reduce gun violence while delivering a statement in the East Room of the White House in Washington January 5, 2016. - Sputnik International
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President Barack Obama’s administration is seeking ways for Mosul city recapturing from Daesh terrorist group, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Wednesday.

Iraqi soldiers guard their base in Makhmour, after it was freed from control of Islamic State, south of Mosul, April 17, 2016 - Sputnik International
Iraqi Security Forces Hold Positions Within 40 Km of Daesh-Occupied Mosul
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — President Barack Obama’s administration is seeking to lay the groundwork for the Iraqi Security Forces recapture of the city of Mosul from the Daesh, but the operation’s success will depend on the Iraqi government and people, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Wednesday.

"The goal we laid out is to try and put in place the conditions by the end of the year where Mosul could be retaken, so that is the goal we are aiming for," Earnest stated.

The spokesman added that the work to recapture Mosul from the Daesh is being led by Iraqi Security Forces. Maintaining security in the country "is a problem that the Iraqi people are going to have to solve," he added, noting that previous US efforts to "impose a solution" on Iraq "didn’t work out very well."

Earlier on Wednesday, US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper stated that the efforts to liberate Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul, from the Daesh is unlikely to occur under the Obama administration, which leaves office at the beginning of 2017.

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