Satellite image shows Mosul, Iraq, in June 2015. Experts believe fighting in Gaza could mirror that which took place between Iraqi government and U.S.-led coalition forces and ISIS fighters in a 9 ...

The challenge for the Iraqis was that there had been two million people in Mosul before the war. Many of them had fled to Internally Displaced Persons camps, but more had to flee the coming battle.

With its educated, relatively wealthy and religiously conservative Sunni population, Mosul was seen with great suspicion, if not outright hostility, by Baghdad before its fall to ISIS.

Before this war, it was not much more than the town’s clinic, serving a district of 300,000 people. Today it is a frontline combat hospital – dealing with the worst that modern weaponry can do ...

An abandoned bear stands in its cage before receiving treatment from members of the international animal welfare charity "Four Paws" at the Montazah al-Morour Zoo in eastern Mosul on Feb. 21, 2017.

Before and After. Before Islamic States seized Mosul in 2014, ... forging a path for Mosul to return to its pre-war state. 2008 The city skyline. 2017 ...

Mosul, Before and After, in Satellite Images Aerial photographs of seven sites in Mosul from 2015 and now illustrate the extent of the city's destruction. By Jesse Chase-Lubitz , Adam Griffiths ...

Before the war it had an administrative budget of $80 million a year; now it doesn’t know how to pay its bills. Related content Graphic: Destruction of Mosul’s Old City ...

The following is a script from “The Battle for Mosul,” which aired on Nov. 6, 2016. Lara Logan is the correspondent. Max McClellan and Richard Butler, producers.

Before the outset of Syria’s civil war, Aleppo’s population exceeded 2 million people, making it Syria’s most populous city and roughly the same size as Mosul before its capture by ISIS.

Mosul braces itself for next bloody chapter having been ravaged by 13 years of war. ... Al-Qaeda in Iraq never entirely lost its grip on Mosul even when it was at its lowest ebb before 2011.

As the battle for Mosul nears its end, the city is devastated and its wounds may never heal. Photojournalist Diego Ibarra Sánchez shares a look through his lens.