An estimated 400,000 Iraqis are trapped in the ISIL-controlled Old City of west Mosul amid food shortages and growing panic under shelling, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said Thursday. Many civilians fear fleeing because of ISIL snipers, but some 157,000 have reached a transit center since the Iraqi government ...
Iraqi forces gained ground from the ISIL group in Mosul and have deployed snipers in the Old City to target the terrorists, officers said on Tuesday. Iraqi forces launched a major operation to recapture west Mosul — the most-populated urban area still held by ISIL — on February 19, and ...
