Bahrain Mirror: Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi said on Thursday (October 20) that the campaign waged on the ISIS affiliation in Mosul is going faster than originally planned, Reuters reported.

"The forces are pushing towards the town more quickly than we thought and more quickly than we had programmed in our campaign plan," al-Abadi said on a video conference call from Baghdad meeting in Paris to discuss the future of Mosul.

In his opening speech, French President Francois Hollande said, however, it was also important to begin planning a separate offensive on the group's bastion Raqqa in Syria, where he said Islamic State fighters were already fleeing from Mosul. He also stressed that all effort must be made to prevent their relocation there.

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