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.

“War has practically been a ... the Saddam and Tahrir neighborhoods of Mosul, I met Zainab and Murtadha. Murtadha had been injured the day before when a mortar fell on his family’s house.

Commanders from the US-led coalition that has provided air and ground support to Iraqi forces said the urban combat had been most intense since World War ... Mosul in June 2014, before seizing ...

Photographer Emanuele Satolli has been covering the battle for Mosul since it first started. He recently returned as Iraqi forces work to free western neighborhoods from the deadly grip of ISIS.

The senior US commander in Iraq has warned that the war against so-called Islamic ... IS militants overran Mosul in June 2014, before seizing control of large parts of northern and western Iraq.

Noting that nearly half a million people have fled Mosul since the start of military operations to retake the city from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da'esh) terrorists, a senior ...