The Battle For Mosul, The Presidential Campaign And 'Planet Drum'

Oct. 26, 2016, 8:14 PM UTC

Iraq's elite counterterrorism forces advance toward Islamic State positions in the village of Tob Zawa, about 9 kilometers (5½ miles) from Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016. Iraqi forces battled Islamic State fighters for a third day in a remote western town far from Mosul on Tuesday, but the U.S.-led coalition insisted the latest in a series of "spoiler attacks" had not forced it to divert resources from the fight to retake Iraq's second-largest city. Khalid Mohammed / AP Photo

The Battle For Mosul, The Presidential Campaign And 'Planet Drum'

Oct. 26, 2016, 8:14 PM UTC

On today's show:

Iraqi troops, along with Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and other militia, have been met with strong resistance by the ISIS fighters in the battle to retake control of Mosul. We get the latest.
We hear how what foreign observers and leaders are saying about how their perception of the US could change after this election.
On Global Notes, listening back to a worldwide collaboration among percussionists to make “new gumbo."