As Iraqi Special Forces and militias try to push the ISIS fighters from Mosul, many civilians are displaced, injured or killed.
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| An Iraqi refugee girl waits with her parents to buy food from a local vendor behind the fence of the Khazir refugee camp near the Kurdish checkpoint of Aski Kalak, 25 miles west of Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on Nov. 21, 2016. |
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| Workers tasked with putting out the fire in an oil well, set ablaze by retreating ISIS jihadists, assemble a water pipeline in the town of Qayyarah, some 44 miles south of Mosul on Nov. 20. Firefighters and engineers pumped water into the well in an effort to stop the fire |
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| A member of the Hashd Al Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation Units), looks towards the direction of incoming snipper fire at Tal Afar airport, on Nov. 20. Pro-government paramilitary forces advancing on the town of Tal Afar, which commands the city's western approaches, entered its airport, while troops moving up from the south had the Mosul airport in their sights. |
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| An Iraqi special forces soldier walks in front of humvees destroyed by an ISIS suicide car bomb attack during clashes in Mosul, on Nov. 19. |
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