ISIL leader Baghdadi confident of Mosul battle victory

ISIL leader Baghdadi confident of Mosul battle victory
Recorded message says "total war" for Iraq's second city "increases our firm belief all this is a prelude to victory".
ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has expressed confidence in victory, in his first message after US-backed Iraqi forces started an offensive to take back Mosul, the last major city under control of his group in Iraq.
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He also called on Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters to invade Turkey.

"This raging battle and total war, and the great jihad that the state of Islam is fighting today only increases our firm belief, God willing, and our conviction that all this is a prelude to victory," he said in an audio recording released online by supporters on Thursday.