- His comments come more than a month after the country started a campaign to drive ISIS terrorists from its last key stronghold of Mosul.
“Confidence grows in the ability and will of the armed forces and their supporters in achieving a final victory that is not far off,” al-Sistani’s representative, Abdel-Mahdi al-Karbali, said in a sermon.
In mid-October, government forces, backed by Kurdish fighters, started a long-awaited offensive to retake Mosul from the terrorists.
The terrorists are believed to be holding thousands of Iraqis in and around Mosul to use them as human shields.
Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, has been under terrorists' control since mid-2014.
In an attempt to slow Iraqi forces’ Mosul mission, terrorists have mounted a series of counterattacks and suicide bombings in different parts of the country.
