“and a CAP with an aerial exclusion zone”
Those planes are based at Incirlik in Turkey...So, this might be a bit awkward.
US forces have problems with door-to-door kick-ins urban warfare to extract the enemy. Losses would be staggering. US forces also seem to have a problem with taking out the human shields the enemy is currently using in order to kill the enemy.
Bring in Turkey. They got no problem with taking out the enemy along with the human shields, cats, dogs, whatever’s in the way.
Close Incirlik - Al Asad works just as well