IRAQ
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Mosul, Iraq— More than two years after the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) forced the Iraqi army to flee the country’s second-largest city, an American-supported coalition is trying to take it back. On October 17, Kurdish forces made their way through a series of villages east of the city. “The Iraqi flag,” said Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, “will be raised in the middle of Mosul, and in each village and corner very soon.” The Kurdish one, however, will fly too— at least along the way into Mosul.