Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20161018:20:56:00
Ben wedeman is there outside mosul. where does the operation stand at this hour? >> reporter: what we saw yesterday, jake, was kurdish forces took about 77 square miles and those nine villages you mentioned. today, because they're doing sort of -- the kurds will move one day, the iraqi army the next. today was the turn of the iraqi army. they're approaching mosul from the south and from the east. now, on the east they are battling with isis in the town of qaraqosh. it's a christian town. it once had a population of about 50,000. all of those christians were driven out by isis or fled. so the b...
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