IRAQ
FELIPE DANA/AP
Qayara, Iraq— A woman and child walk past a checkpoint about 20 miles south of Mosul on November 6. The U.S. expects as many as 700,000 people will be displaced in the battle to force the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) out of Mosul, where the militants fighting to hold on to Iraq’s second biggest city recently crucified five people they said gave information to “the enemy,” Reuters reported. About 33,000 people have fled Mosul since a coalition of Iraqi troops and Kurdish peshmerga, supported by U.S. military advisers, began their assault on the city about three weeks ago.