The Iraqi army and Kurdish Peshmerga forces have begun a new offensive against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) near the armed group's stronghold of Mosul.
There are an estimated 6,000 ISIL fighters in and around Mosul.
Al Jazeera’s Caroline Malone takes a look at why it's so important for the Iraqi army to retake Mosul from ISIL.
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