Iraqis Starve Waiting for Troops to Push IS From Mosul

Aliyah Hussein and the 25 family members sheltering with her in Mosul’s western Mahatta neighborhood are surviving by picking wild greens growing in a park near their home. Hussein mixes the vegetables with small amounts of rice and tomato paste to make a thin soup that is often her family’s only meal.    Her cousin Zuhair Abdul Karim said on a recent day that even with the wild greens, the food ran out.    “I swear to God, we are hungry. (The Islamic State group)...

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