Hundreds of civilians, mostly women and children, have been killed under collapsed buildings in the Iraqi city of Mosul after a reported US-led airstrike triggered a massive explosion in a residential neighborhood last week. Iraqi civil defense agency officials and locals said Thursday that rescuers are still recovering bodies from ...
An estimated 400,000 Iraqis are trapped in the ISIL-controlled Old City of west Mosul amid food shortages and growing panic under shelling, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said Thursday. Many civilians fear fleeing because of ISIL snipers, but some 157,000 have reached a transit center since the Iraqi government ...
