Mosul, Iraq (CNN)For more than 28 hours CNN senior international correspondent Arwa Damon and photojournalist Brice Lane were with Iraqi special forces as they pushed forward into ISIS-held Mosul on Friday. It was a new phase of the liberation operation -- switching from villages and open terrain to a dense city that a well-equipped ISIS is determined to defend.

Their convoy was leading the attack before it came under attack multiple times.
Vehicles were destroyed, soldiers were hurt. Troops and journalists sought shelter in a succession of houses, calling for back-up again and again.
Inside the armored vehicles, hiding with families in houses, Arwa Damon kept notes amid the heat of the battle. Here is her account, with occasional strong language. It has been lightly edited for clarity.
Friday, 9 a.m.
We are in Samah, in the east of Mosul.
Soldiers are spotting suspected ISIS fighters down side roads.
A frantic radio call: "Yellow car to the right."
"Another two cars on the right -- a Kia and a white one " spots the soldier next to me. He sees a third car and calls it over the radio. "Three cars, disappeared into the side streets."
The gunfire is all over the place, it's non-stop. Our MRAP armored vehicle is filled with the smell of gunfire from all the shooting outside.
9:30 a.m.
A voice comes over the ISIS radio frequency that the Iraqis are monitoring: "I am surrounded." We have no idea where he might be.
A bulldozer is with our convoy, heading up the side streets.
9:54 a.m.
Samah is now behind us. Hay al-Ulamaa is ahead of us.

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overhypedsteve:
Every body is creating thread about Mosul but your lazy asses can't look for picture to post abi?