The scene is set for Isis’s

artappraiser — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 07:25:15 +0000

In reply to Iraq: UN refugee agency sounds alarm for more support as fighting continues in Mosul

The scene is set for Isis’s last stand in Mosul

By Bethan McKernan from Beirut for The Independent, June 2

Remaining militants hole up in symbolic fight for city’s Grand Mosque, from which leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared the establishment of the so-called caliphate in 2014

Mosul Fight Down to Three Neighborhoods, US Military Says

By Carla Babb from The Pentagon for VOA News, June 2

Iraqi Forces Take New District in West Mosul

@ Rudaw.net, June 2

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Iraqi forces have taken the Saha neighbourhood of west Mosul, one of the last four districts still held by ISIS, the military announced in a statement on Friday.

The fight for Old Mosul, home to al-Nuri mosque where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared his caliphate nearly three years ago, is expected to be the bloodiest in a conflict that has already been marked by horrific civilian casualties.

Visiting the frontlines earlier this week, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who is also commander-in-chief of the armed forces, predicted that victory over ISIS in the northern Iraqi city will come “very soon.” [....]

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artappraiser — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 07:17:12 +0000

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Some 10,000 people fleeing west Mosul every day, UN migration agency warns

26 May 2017 – Citing Iraqi Government figures, the United Nations migration agency today warned that the number of people fleeing West Mosul is soaring – on 18 May, hitting a peak when some 16,100 transited through the Hamam al-Alil screening site – the largest official daily movement of people since the October 2016 military offence began.

“The fact that huge numbers of Iraqis continue to flee West Mosul, despite the dangers involved, is a testament of both the the dire situation inside, and the enormous task ahead of us to alleviate the suffering of IDPs [internally displaced persons],” said the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Iraq Chief of Mission, Thomas Lothar Weiss.

According to the military and camp management at Hamam al-Alil, an average of 10,000 individuals fleeing West Mosul arrives at the transit zone on a daily basis.

With gruelling high temperatures during the day, most leave at night, walking several hours before reaching the nearest military checkpoints. From there, they are transported to Hamam al-Alil, south of Mosul, on the western banks of the Euphrates, which has become the transit hub for the tens of thousands of families fleeing the West Mosul conflict [.....]

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