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| Iraq |
| Iraqi forces fight ISIS street-to-street in Mosul as civilians flee |
| 2016-11-18 |
| [RUDAW.NET] Iraqi forces were fighting ISIS street-to-street in eastern djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... on Thursday, as civilians continued to flee to the safety of the Kurdistan Region. Clashes were ongoing in four neighborhoods, where people were raising white flags above their homes to indicate they are civilians and avoid being targeted by mistake by Iraqi forces, Rudaw’s Hevidar Ahmed reported from the eastern Mosul neighborhood of al-Zahra. He reported the Rudaw cameras showed clouds of thick smoke above al-Zahra, days after Iraqi forces said they had liberated one-third of eastern Mosul. As the Iraqi army pushed deeper into the city, hundreds of civilians were fleeing to Kurdistan, most accompanied by their livestock, AP reported. An estimated 300 people fled Mosul and its outskirts on Wednesday, making their way to Omer Qamchi, a village northeast of Mosul that was liberated late last month. |
| Posted by:Fred |