THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF ESTABLISHING A DECLARED OR UNDECLARED SALAFIST PRINCIPALITY IN EASTERN SYRIA (HASAKA AND DER ZOR), AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE SUPPORTING POWERS TO THE OPPOSITION WANT, IN ORDER TO ISOLATE THE SYRIAN REGIME.

According to him, the Iraqi Army and Kurdish Peshmerga forces are completing preparations for the offensive, including deployment of heavy weapons to Mosul's borders.

The Kurdish forces have received military assistance from the West for the operation. In particular, Germany provided them with Milan anti-tank missile systems. France and the United States are supplying heavy weapons to Kurds. French aircraft will be involved in the operation, Mamuzini said.

According to him, the offensive will be divided into three stages. The first stage will include the liberation of villages outside the city. Then, the army and the Kurdish forces will enter Mosul and clear the outskirts of jihadists. Finally, the city will be completely liberated.

"Nevertheless, during the operation a corridor will be left for terrorists to escape to Syria. Those retreating this way will not be captured. Currently, there are some 7,000 Daesh militants. But the operation is not expected to be long because the terrorists are not as strong as before," he said.

Moreover, the operation could cause mass displacement of Mosul residents. Currently, the population of the city is 1.3 million. It is expected that up to one million people might leave Mosul.

On Thursday, the Belgrade weekly Nedeljnik published what it said was an interview with Trump, under the headline "I apologize to Serbia." The five-question interview was supposedly answered via email, through Trump's campaign director in Indiana, the paper told US media.
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The interview was quickly noticed by the US magazine Newsweek, and soon thereafter by other media outlets. Newsweek quoted London-based professor Eric Gordy, who described the remarks as "another sign of (Trump's) alignment with Russia."

Hillary Clinton's campaign echoed Gordy in a statement shortly after noon on Thursday, accusing Trump of pushing "the talking points of his ally" Russian President Vladimir Putin. "While Hillary Clinton has stood up to Russia, Trump continues to pander to Putin," said Clinton's foreign policy adviser Laura Rosenberger.
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Marko Prelevic, one of the authors of the interview, told both Newsweek and BuzzFeed News that the questions were sent out by email and that the answers came back through Suzanne Jaworowski, head of the Trump-Pence campaign in Indiana. Contact with the campaign was established through Vladimir Rajcic, a Serbian-American actor, Prelevic said.

However, Jaworowski said the interview never happened. "There was no Trump interview on Serbia," she told Politico on Thursday afternoon. "I don't know where that came from. I never facilitated any kind of interview with a Serbian reporter."

"This was a hoax and we look forward to receiving a formal retraction and apology from all involved,"added Jason Miller, the campaign's senior communications adviser.

The quote about the bombing that Nedeljnik attributed to Trump sounded nearly identical to a quote the Serbian press has been reporting for almost a year, supposedly from a Larry King interview on CNN but without ever citing a source.

The only documented instance of Trump mentioning the Kosovo War is in his October 1999 appearance on Larry King's show, when he said, "I would have done it a little bit differently."