Byron Smith . Mosul Offensive 2016 Series . 2016 Byron Smith . Mosul Offensive 2016 Series . 2016
Seen from a building that has taken artillery fire, smoke billows from one of the remaining oil wells set ablaze
by ISIL in their retreat from Qayyarah on November, 27, 2016. Nearly two years since the Islamic State took the city of Mosul in northern Iraq,
the Iraqi Army launched an offensive to wrest the city back from the insurgency in October of 2016. Lafi, 63, (no last name given) tries to calm his grandson Yousef, 2, as he and his family joined
other Internally Displaced People fleeing ISIS from Mosul as Iraqi Security Forces move to clear the city of the terror network,
at Khazir Camp in Kurdistan Region on December 4, 2016.
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