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cnn senior international correspondent nick paton walsh is there, live. nick, what are we going to see here and what is the relevance to the ongoing struggle? reporter: chris, the images you re seeing now have been attacken the last few days of the final chapter, really, of ridding isis in iraq. the major battle now is the old city, part of the major northern city of mosul, as isis took nearly three years ago now and is down to street-to-street fighting. dense, narrow alleyways. isis are using human shields, civilians, tens of thousands of them. they often emerge from gaps in the rubble, desperate for food and water. the destruction is remarkable, u.s. official telling me there could be as little as 200 or so isis fighters left in this area. the progress by iraqi special forces, coalition fire power backing them up has been pretty fast in the last couple of days. isis has blown up a key monument for themselves, the mosque

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