As Some Iraqis Flee Fighting, Others Long for Home

Fleeing fighting, abandoning their villages, and returning to formerly IS controlled areas, Iraqis are on the move. Aid workers are setting up camps for the one million people who may be displaced by the battle for Mosul, while many recaptured villages and towns remain virtually empty, littered with bombs and blackened by burning oil wells.    In Qayyarah, smoke from burning oil wells billows over the town, while fumes from a burning sulfur plant poison the air.  Islamic...

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