[DAWN] Iraqi forces opened exit routes for hundreds of civilians to flee the Old City of djinn-infested Mosul... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
on Saturday as they battled to retake the quarter from the krazed killer Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group mounting a last stand in what was the de facto capital of their self-declared caliphate.
US-trained urban warfare units were channelling their onslaught along two perpendicular streets that converge in the heart of the Old City, aiming to isolate the jihadist
The week-old battle in the Old City is turning into the deadliest of the eight-month US-backed campaign to take back the northern city, which fell to the
A correspondent saw a maiden with facial injuries walking dazed and shocked across the frontline out of heavily-populated district with a group of neighbours. All her family was killed when their house collapsed, they said.
The United Nations
...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
voiced alarm on Saturday at the rising corpse count among civilians in the fighting, saying as many as 12 were killed and hundreds injured on Friday.