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Foreign Islamic State Fighters Are "Fighting to the Death" in Mosul
(Sydney Morning Herald-Australia) Latika Bourke - Western-backed Iraqi forces are capturing some Islamic State fighters as they fight to liberate Mosul and Raqqa, but the vast majority of foreign fighters are "fighting to the death." Col. John Dorrian, spokesperson for the coalition against ISIS, said just 1,000 remain in Mosul, Iraq, while 3-4,000 are still fighting in Raqqa, Syria. In Mosul, "a lot of the foreign fighters are very hardcore and they came here to die," he said. "They're not surrendering, they're fighting to the death."