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Advancing Iraq troops broke through Islamic State defense lines in an eastern suburb of Mosul Monday, as the battle for the insurgent stronghold moves inside the city limits. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Kurdish Peshmerga forces are seen advancing on the city Mosul, Iraq as the battle to retake it from Islamic State begins. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
This little toddler named Bilal Tagirov was just two years old when his father kidnapped him and forced him to travel to Syria in October 2015. Bilal's father Hassan Tagirov left the Chechen Republic in order to fight for the self-proclaimed Islamic State. His mother Zalikha Ashakhanova only found out that her son was located in Mosul by chance when she saw a video of him online on July 15, 2017. The toddler was found by Chechen security forces in Mosul and finally reunited with Zalikha in Grozny on Thursday, returning to her waiting arms.
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.
Video footage shows what remains of a Christian town near the Iraqi city of Mosul after the ousting of Islamic State militants. Rough cut (no reporter narration).
The Iraqi army maintains pressure to recapture the Islamic State stronghold of Falluja, 50 kilometres west of Baghdad, but keeps short of a full attack to allow civilians to flee. Natasha Howitt reports.
A Kurdish peshmerga fighter desribes the battle that killed U.S. Navy SEAL, Charles Keating IV by a sniper during fighting against Islamic State in Iraq. Subtitled Rough Cut (No reporter narration)
A Kurdish peshmerga fighter desribes the battle that killed U.S. Navy SEAL, Charles Keating IV by a sniper during fighting against Islamic State in Iraq. Subtitled Rough Cut (No reporter narration)
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