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CNN's Ben Wedeman has been up on the ridge line overlooking Kalak, a ridge line that's been pounded by coalition airstrikes during the last couple of weeks.
What we're seeing on the ground near Kalak today, which is a couple of hours away by car from my location, is a further degradation of Iraq's front line defenses around one of two key northern cities, Mosul.