Iraq still faces grueling combat in Mosul

Friday, November 18, 2016

MOSUL, Iraq -- Layers of hastily erected barricades built from rubble and twisted metal trace Mosul's eastern front line where Iraqi forces and Islamic State group fighters are facing off in the dense neighborhoods and narrow alleyways of the country's second-largest city.

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