Rights Group: Fight for West Mosul ‘Dirtier and Deadlier to Civilians’

Shihab Ayed and several other men struggled to push a cart carrying the bodies of his son and wife, wrapped in blankets, through a muddy ditch nearly 2 miles (3 kilometers) from their destroyed home in Mosul. Four other carts followed, laden with days-old corpses from air strikes that the men said killed 21 relatives and neighbors in an area Islamic State militants controlled earlier in the week. A father's loss Ayed, a 40-year-old laborer, pulled back a blanket to show his only...

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