major isis strong hold now for more than two years. our senior international correspondent nick paton walsh is embedded with iraqi forces on the front line. reporter: the last phase of lifting isis dark curse from iraq begins here. trying to hit a spectral fleeting enemy, lit only by the glow of mosul s city limits. barely two kilometers away. iraqi special forces trained by the u.s. target with a tank here. where they are attacked from during the day. telling us to use humvees as cover when they move. their commander, major salam, has fought isis in fallujah, ramadi, and now the end is near. where did the artillery land, he asks.
runs from where we saw the fighting start, just a few weeks ago now, to where they are hitting the city limits now where we saw ourselves some of the intense resistance isis is putting up. the last phase of lifting isis dark curse from iraq begins here. trying to hit a spectral, fleeting enemy, lit only by the glow of mosul s city limits. barely two kilometers away. the iraqi special forces, trained by the u.s., target with a tank here. where they are attacked from during the day. telling us to use humvees as cover when they move. their commander major salim has fought isis in fallujah, ramadi, and now the end is near. where did the artillery land, he