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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nAccording to the Washington Post<\/a>, ISIS resistance has stalled the Iraqis’ advance into Mosul.<\/p>\n The intense fight for hamlets some 30 miles from the city suggested that the militants could fight for every inch outside the city, but also that they are unlikely to be able to hold on in the face of a coordinated advance and close air support from a U.S.-led coalition.<\/p>\n Residents who have recently fled the area and Iraqi officials with contacts inside Mosul say the Islamic State has been digging in for a fight, erecting concrete barricades and filling trenches full of oil that can be set on fire to slow advancing forces. The Islamic State claimed to have carried out 12 suicide attacks on the first day of the offensive, according to its affiliated news agency, Amaq. Jabbar Yawar, a spokesman for Kurdish peshmerga forces, said eight Kurdish soldiers were killed Monday and 16 injured.<\/p>\n The struggle for Mosul \u2014 which involves U.S. air power and an array of Iraqi ground forces \u2014 is the largest and most complex so far in the battle against Islamic State militants. It has brought an unprecedented level of military cooperation between Baghdad and the Kurdistan regional government in northern city of Irbil, which have long feuded over oil and land. But some small cracks in that alliance appeared Tuesday, as Kurdish and Iraqi commanders traded blame for delays in some operations in the east.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Of course, the coalition has been telegraphing the assault every day for the past month, so it’s not like the attack is unexpected. When ISIS starts losing in Syria and Iraq, they start attacks elsewhere. Turkish police killed a suicide bomber<\/a> in Ankara yesterday;<\/p>\n Police tracked the Islamic State suspect to the ninth floor of a building on Ankara’s outskirts, where he was killed in a gunfight around 3 a.m. after opening fire in response to a call to surrender, the state-run Anadolu Agency said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n