IS driving hundreds into Mosul, using them as human shields
Thursday, October 27, 2016
QAYARA, Iraq -- Islamic State militants have been going door to door in villages south of Mosul, ordering people at gunpoint on a mileslong trek into the city and using them as human shields as the extremists prepare to defend it from Iraqi forces, according to residents swept up in the forced evacuations.
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