Meanwhile he might kick your belly though <| sep |> GG Hawks fans <| sep |> Its partly because the PMU ' s went West in order to encircle the ISIS forces in Mosul . However the core of the issue is likely the tangled web of political issues related to the Mosul offensive in general . There is the Peshmerga to the North who are not allowed within a certain number of km ' s of Mosul , in the South and the West there is the PMU ' s who are also not allowed within a certain number of km ' s of Mosul . Then there are the Iraqi army forces getting delayed and stuck at KRG checkpoint ' s while attempting to push South from their positions in KRG territory north of Mosul . Really that just leaves the Iraqi army pushing from the West into Mosul which while not ideal is the most politically expedient thing to do at the moment .