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About a thousand families have reportedly crossed the Euphrates River near the besieged Iraqi city of Falluja to escape Islamic State militants as well as the violent government offensive that aims to push them out of the city. Mana Rabiee reports.
Women living in Haji Ali, a group of villages numbering about 40,000 people in northern Iraq about 40 miles south of Mosul, have taken up arms to protect the area from Islamic State militants. IS-controlled villages are only about a mile away, so women have learned how to use weapons and have started guarding their families' houses at night, in order to help their men, which rotate in and out of the frontline. Villagers fear that IS could sneak across the Tigris river and into the village under the cover of night, and are complaining that locals don't have enough weapons to defend themselves.
New footage shows Islamic State fighting Iraqi forces in the southwestern and eastern districts of Mosul, Iraq. Nathan Frandino reports.
After nearly five weeks of fighting, Iraqi troops capture the last district held by the Islamic State group in Falluja.
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