“Mosul and Kirkuk bombed by US,” reported the Daily Mail on 24 March.
The United States has been targeting Mosul and Kirkuk in recent days as Washington slowly moves troops into the region to open a new front in its ground war on Iraq, which has been waged mainly from the south via Kuwait.”
So far so unremarkable. Of greater cause for concern was an Iraqi News report two days earlier which said:
A senior security source announced on Tuesday, that dozens of ISIS militants were killed, including Arabs and foreigners, in an aerial bombardment carried out by the international coalition aviation on the University of Mosul.”