View of the destroyed al-Nuri mosque in the Old City district where heavy fighting continues on July 2, 2017 in Mosul, Iraq. Iraqi forces continue to...
People walk amongst rubble from destroyed buildings in an outer neighborhood of the Old City in West Mosul on November 6, 2017 in Mosul, Iraq. Five...
Boy pauses on his bike as he passes an oil field that was set on fire by retreating ISIS fighters ahead of the Mosul offensive, on October 21, 2016...
Iraq - The clock tower and domes of the Dominican Mission Church at Mosul. Photo taken in 1920s after creation of Iraq
Traffic from Mosul queues at a Kurdish Check point on June 14, 2014 in Kalak, Iraq. Thousands of people have fled Iraq's second city of Mosul after...
The minaret and shrine of the Nebi Yunus Mosque of the Prophet Jonah in Mosul, Iraq, August, 1971. The Sunni religious complex was demolished by ISIS...
Iraqi women and their children flee the Old City district where heavy fighting continues on July 2, 2017 in Mosul, Iraq. Iraqi forces continue to...
Church that was partially destoyed by Islamic State is pictured during the offensive to recapture the city of Mosul from Islamic State militants, on...
Commissioners appointed by the League of Nations are now in Zakhe and Mosul in Mesopotamia, a British mandate, investigating stories of the...
Man stands in front of a destroyed building in an outer neighborhood of the Old City in West Mosul on November 6, 2017 in Mosul, Iraq. Five months...
Men walk past destroyed buildings on November 6, 2017 in Mosul, Iraq. Five months after Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city was liberated from ISIL in...
Man suspected of being an Islamic State militant is detained by the Iraqi Army in the Old City district on July 10, 2017 in Mosul, Iraq. The Iraqi...
Woman and her sick child flee as Iraqi Army soldiers fight Islamic State militants who occupy the last section of the Old City district on July 10,...
An injured Iraqi man who has been detained from among civilians and suspected of being an Islamic State militant by Iraqi forces cries in the...
Man walks with his children past burnt out cars in a street in west Mosul on April 13, 2017 in Mosul, Iraq. As the Mosul offensive enters its sixth...
An Iraqi Army member launches a rocket during the operation to retake Mosul from Daesh terrorists in Jadid neighborhood as the clashes between Iraqi...
Street damaged by an airstrike in the fight between Iraqi forces and Islamic State on the frontline in al-Dowasa, west Mosul, March 18, 2017. Iraqi...
Soldiers of Iraqi Army shout slogans as they move forward Khalid, Saleh and Zanawer Villages from recaptured village Kabarok of Qayyarah Town to...
Smoke billows from a combined aircraft, artillery and ground attack to recapture the village of Tiskharab from ISIS on October 20, 2016 near Mosul,...
Iraq - Nebi Younus - a village with a mosque near Nineveh where it is believed the Prophet Jonah is buried. Photo taken in 1920s after creation of...
Soldier restricts the movement of an Iraqi family as his colleagues search their house during a routine house search on March 5, 2005 in the restive...
Iraqi refugees gather food and blankets in a makeshift camp at a Kurdish checkpoint in Kalak after fleeing from the city of Mosul which has been...
Child is seen on the car while passing the control point of peshmargas of Iraq Kurdistan Regional Government on the outskirts of Mosul, Iraq on 12...
Volunteer looks for useful medical items inside the destroyed Salam Hospital on November 5, 2017 in Mosul, Iraq. Salam Hospital, Mosul's main hosptal...
Iraqi Special Operation Forces and Iraqi Army soldiers fight Islamic State militants who occupy the last section of the Old City district on July 9,...
An Iraqi boy carries his sister through the Old City of west Mosul where heavy fighting continues on June 30, 2017 in Mosul, Iraq. Iraqi forces...
This is a satellite image of a Mosul Dam February 11, 2007 in Mosul, Iraq. A U.S. Audit report released October 30, 2007 about the dam stated that it...
Hundreds of exhausted and panicked civilians flee Bab Sinjar, Zanjili and Abi Tamam, the 3 districts on the north side of Mosul's Old City, which is...
Commando of 7 men of the 1st brigade of the ISOF fights Daesh, house by house, to take control of Al Saha, one of the last districts of Mosul be...
An Iraqi forces airstrike targets an Islamic State sniper position June 17, 2017 in al-Shifa, the last district of west Mosul under Islamic State...
An Iraqi federal policeman uses a helmet on a stick to try and draw fire from an Islamic State sniper in an attempt to make him reveal his position...
Man stands in the ruins of a building destroyed during fighting between Iraqi forces and Islamic State, on April 11, 2017 in Mosul, Iraq. Large...
An Iraqi federal policeman prepares to fire a rocket propelled grenade at an Islamic State position on a nearby rooftop during fighting in west Mosul...
An Iraqi Emergency Response Division soldier looks back as he walks towards a truck that has been wedged between buildings to give cover against...
Soldier of the Iraqi Federal Police Emergency Response Division during a battle on their last position of the Wednesday Market, on the frontline...
The Iraqi Special Operations Forces took total control of the Saddam district where members of the Islamic State where still resisting yesterday....
Fire fighters give a break during trying to extinguish the fire at oil wells, were set on fire by Daesh terrorists as they fled after Al Qayyarah...
Man sweeps dust off seating in preparation for the Christmas Day mass at the Mar Hanna Church on December 22, 2016 in Mosul, Iraq. After recently...
View of the Al - Tahira Al-Kubra church which was damaged by Daesh terrorists after the Al- Hamdaniya District was rescued during the operation to...
Civilians flee from the Zahara neighbourhood on the north eastern edge of Mosul as fighting continues nearby, on November 6th in Mosul Iraq. Fighting...
Thick black cloud hovers over buildings in the desert as an oil field that was set on fire by retreating ISIS fighters ahead of the Mosul offensive...
Kurdish Peshmerga fighter leans out of his military vehicle which has taken several direct hits from ISIS snipers including on the windscreen on...
Syrian People's Protection Units members fight against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Rabia town, Mosul, Iraq on August 6, 2014. YPG members...
Iraqi families wait outside of a displacement camp for those caught-up in the fighting in and around the city of Mosul on June 26, 2014 in Khazair,...
Iraqi men, some of which have defected from the army fleeing violence arrive at a Kurdish checkpoint in Kalak.. June 12, 2014.
Army 101st Airborne troops chase down Iraqi suspects across the street July 23, 2003 from the site where both Uday and Qusay Hussein were killed July...
Local Iraqi girl watches from the doorway of her home as U.S. Army 101st Airborne troops take cover July 23, 2003 near the site where they killed...
The ancient Akkadian and Neo-Assyrian restored site of Nineveh near Mosul in Northern Iraq was from 662-612 the largest city in the world. Parts of...
Taxis drive along road beside restored walls of ancient Akkadian and net-assyrian city pf Nineveh which from 662-612 BC was the largest city in the...
In this handout image provided by United Nations High Commission for Refugees, UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie visits the Old City in West Mosul...
In this handout image provided by United Nations High Commission for Refugees, UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie meets Falak during a visit to West...
Man suffering from seizures is seen in the ICU department of the small temporary hospital across the street from the destroyed Salam Hospital on...
Children enjoy a train ride at the Mosul Amusement Park on November 4, 2017 in Mosul, Iraq. The theme park was shut down under ISIS occupation and...
Civilians carry their belongings on a destroyed street in an outer neighborhood of the Old City in West Mosul on November 6, 2017 in Mosul, Iraq....
Children walk to school past destroyed cars in West Mosul on November 6, 2017 in Mosul, Iraq. Five months after Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city was...
Father sits with his son to watch a local football game in East Mosul on November 5, 2017 in Mosul, Iraq. Five months after Mosul, Iraq's...