Food Pre-Positioned for 1.25 Million People in Mosul

About 33,000 people have now been displaced from their homes in and around Mosul since military operations began three weeks ago to oust Islamic State from Iraq's second-largest city. Amid fierce urban combat the number of those who have fled is lower than initially expected but humanitarian officials are still preparing to care for up to 700,000 refugees, which is the expected "worst-case scenario" amid a "fast-developing situation," according to one senior U.S....

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