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KOKJALI Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi told his followers on Thursday there could be no retreat in a"total war" against the forces arrayed against them, as advancing soldiers battled the militants inside their northern Iraqi stronghold. Expressing confidence that his IS fighters would prevail against Western"crusaders" and Turkey and Saudi Arabia, Baghdadi called on the IS members fighting in the city of Mosul to"wreak havoc". page 11
