In 2003, a US-led coalition invaded Iraq and removed Saddam Hussein from power. Since then, the security situation has been very instable in the country.
In 2014, an insurgency escalated into a full-scale military conflict with ISIS expanding in large areas in Iraq. Over the next three years, Iraqi security forces, supported by some global and local powers, were working to push ISIS out of the captured territories. Iraqi forces made significant gains and started storming the last remaining ISIS stronghold of Mosul.
Nice map, Mosul airport fell rather fast.
ISUS is in retreat, with no where to hide. :)
There was nothing left from Mosul airport when Iraqi forces took it; it was just a vast piece of flat land.
The Palmyra front seems to be next to fall, SAA need to take the opportunity to expand the buffer zone on the narrow road.