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IS expel residents to defend river bank in Mosul
10 years agoIraqis pull a cart with their belongings in a street in Mosul's al-Zahraa neighbourhood on January 8, 2017, as they flee with other civilians during an ongoing military operation against Islamic State (IS) group militants. Elite Iraqi forces battling the Islamic State group in eastern Mosul reached the Tigris River that splits the city in two for the first time, a spokesman said. Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP
"The group forced us to leave our homes... without allowing us to take our belongings," a resident of Al-Maidan, a neighbourhood on the city's jihadist-held west bank, told AFP.