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December 29, 2016

Iraq: U.S. Resumes Bombing Mosul as Residents Flee to Camps
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In Iraq, U.S. warplanes launched airstrikes on Mosul today, as the Iraqi
Army fought to reclaim the city from ISIS. Hundreds of residents poured
out of the city's eastern neighborhoods to escape the violence.

Mosul resident: "We fled the Quds neighborhood to escape the mortars.
Mortars would constantly fall on us. The situation there was difficult.
Everything is expensive. We were starving."

Iraqi security forces are screening the displaced residents and busing
them to camps east of Mosul. But many camp residents say cold and wet
weather has made conditions so miserable that they're desperate to
leave. As many as 1 million people remain trapped inside Mosul with
increasingly limited access to food and drinking water.


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