Mosul -- News Updates July 17, 2017





Washington Post: After Islamic State defeat, a daunting search for bodies in Mosul’s rubble

MOSUL, Iraq — The streets of Mosul’s Old City are littered with bodies, tangled between shattered stones and remnants of the lives they left behind.

In the baking summer heat, exhausted rescue crews are now sifting through the debris of the toughest battle against the Islamic State in what became its final redoubt in the city.

As Iraqi ground troops, U.S.-led coalition jets and Islamic State militants pulverized the Old City’s winding maze of streets, thousands of civilians were caught in the crossfire.

But the area is now deserted, its inhabitants evacuated to houses, camps or prison cells across the province in recent months.

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WNU Editor: Here is a story from survivors on what was life like in the ISIS held Old City of Mosul in the last few days of the war .... Mosul battle: Dying hard in caliphate’s final

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