Moon howler you poor fella.  You are failing to pick up on their facetiousness where they are really comparing Mosul to Aleppo and wanting to know the difference.   Where Aleppo had rebels, Mosul has jihadists....  Where civilian deaths in Aleppo were the focus of the story, in Mosul it is all about liberation.  In fact the majority of ISIL are Iraqi's left over from the american illegal wars, so why are they not called 'rebel's.     Such low effort thinking, you must be a Trump supporter.