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Fierce fighting on outskirts of Mosul Old City
10 years agoIraqi forces, consisting of the Iraqi federal police and the elite Rapid Response Division, advance in a house in the Old City in western Mosul on March 17, 2017, during the offensive to retake the city from Islamic State (IS) group fighters. Ahmad al-Rubaye / AFP
The elite Rapid Response Force and Iraqi federal police attacked the Islamic State group militants with rifles, machineguns, mortar rounds and rockets a month after the west Mosul operation began.
