Mosul Battle: Fighting, Fleeing, Returning, Remaining

“When birds fly away from the building, that’s when we know Islamic State militants are on the roof,” says Iraqi Army Captain Raad Qasim, explaining why one of his soldiers was shooting a machine gun off the roof we were crouched on, behind a cement wall. Another soldier pulls the plug out of a hand grenade, and chucks it across the street at the suspect house. IS on a rooftop could mean they were planning to attack, but we will never know if or what that failed plan...

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