Thousands flee as Iraq steps up airstrikes on IS-held town
A boy looks at the camera in this 12 August, 2017, photo, as displaced women and children sit on the ground at a collection point for displaced people west of Mosul. Hundreds of people a day are fleeing the town and the villages around it in anticipation of a government offensive against one of the last urban centers under Islamic State group control in northern Iraq. (AP Photo/Balint Szlanko)/ BADOUSH, Iraq (AP) — Thousands of Iraqis have fled an Islamic State-held town west of Mosul as Iraqi and coalition warplanes step up strikes ahead ...
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