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A man rushes his daughter to safety while fleeing the al-Rifai neighborhood as Iraqi special forces battle Islamic State militants, in western Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, May 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Airstrikes Fuel Mosul Gains as Iraq Seeks Quick KO

by Susannah George Associated PressMay 19, 2017

Iraqi civilians flee through a destroyed train station during fighting between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State militants, on the western side of Mosul, Iraq, Sunday, March 19, 2017. More than 750 civilians have been killed or wounded in the first month of fighting in the Iraqi offensive to retake western Mosul from the Islamic State group, front-line medics say, a number they expect to spike as Iraqi forces push into Mosul’s old city. Iraqi forces have increasingly turned to airstrikes and artillery in the heavily populated urban terrain, and impoverished residents running out of food are forced to flee their homes, making dangerous journeys across front lines. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

West Mosul Battle Deadly for Iraqi Civilians

by Susannah George Associated Press, and Malak Harb Associated PressMarch 19, 2017

Iraqi special forces arrest a fighter with Islamic State militia in Mosul, Iraq, Saturday, Feb. 25. 2017. An Iraqi commander says special forces troops are progressing through western Mosul and encountering stiff resistance from entrenched Islamic State fighters. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Iraqi Advances on Mosul Slowing

by Susannah George Associated PressFebruary 26, 2017

In this Friday, Jan. 27, 2017 photo, an Iraqi officer holds a drone belonging to Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq. Islamic State is hacking store-bought drone technology, using rigorous testing and tactics that mimic those used by U.S. unmanned aircraft to adapt to diminishing numbers of fighters and a battlefield that is increasingly difficult to navigate on the ground. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Islamic State Turns to Drones to Direct Bombers

by Susannah George Associated Press, and Lori Hinnant Associated PressFebruary 2, 2017

Iraqi special forces fight against Islamic State militants to regain control of Mosul University, in the eastern side of Mosul, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

Iraq Makes Gains In Mosul

by Susannah George Associated PressJanuary 15, 2017

Internally displaced persons clear a checkpoint in Qayara, some 50 kilometers south of Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016. Islamic State militants have been going door to door in farming communities south of Mosul, ordering people at gunpoint to follow them north into the city and apparently using them as human shields as they retreat from Iraqi forces. Witnesses to the forced evacuation describe scenes of chaos as hundreds of people were driven north across the Ninevah plains and into the heavily-fortified city, where the extremists are believed to be preparing for a climactic showdown. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

Militants Using Human Shields

by Susannah George Associated Press, and Joseph Krauss Associated PressOctober 26, 2016

In this Sept. 8, 2016 photo, a U.S. Army soldier guards a position at Camp Swift, northern Iraq. U.S. troops will be engaged more closely than ever in fighting against Islamic State group militants as they back Iraqi forces in the long-anticipated assault on Mosul. The assault caps an increasing American role in Iraq over the past two years, with nearly 6,000 US troops on the ground, including special forces in combat on the front-lines. (AP Photo/Susannah George)

U.S. Forces Increased for Mosul Invasion

by Susannah George Associated PressOctober 9, 2016

Iraqi counter-terrorism forces patrol Fallujah, Iraq, Monday, June 27, 2016. Thick clouds of black smoke billowed over the Julan neighborhood in northwest Fallujah Monday as dozens of homes continued to burn a day after the city was declared “fully liberated” from the Islamic State group. Iraqi special forces Lt. Gen. Abdel Wahab al-Saadi who led the operation to retake the city, said that IS militants torched hundreds of houses in Fallujah's north and west as they fled Sunday, just as the fighters did in many of the city's other neighborhoods over the course of the operation. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Fallujah Burned and Looted

by Susannah George Associated PressJune 28, 2016

This image made from Associated Press video shows, Iraqi troop carry an Iraqi flags on their tanks after a senior Iraqi commander declared that the city of Fallujah was "fully liberated" from Islamic State group militants, in Fallujah, Iraq, Sunday, June 26, 2016. (AP Video via AP)

Iraq: Fallujah Finally Free

by Sinan Salaheddin Associated Press, and Susannah George Associated PressJune 26, 2016

FILE - Smoke rises from Islamic State group positions after an airstrike by U.S.-led coalition warplanes in Fallujah, as Iraqi security forces and allied Shiite Popular Mobilization Forces and Sunni tribal fighters, take combat positions outside Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 23, 2016. Iraqi government forces on Monday pushed Islamic State militants out of some agricultural areas outside Fallujah as they launched a military offensive to recapture the city from the extremists, officials said. (AP Photo/Rwa Faisal)

Fallujah Residents Hunker Down

by Susannah George Associated PressMay 28, 2016