IRAQ
Mosul, Iraq—An Iraqi man walks with his daughter in the al-Mithaq neighborhood on January 8, blocking the dead body of an Islamic State group fighter from her line of sight. Iraqi forces have made significant advances in the battle to retake the city from ISIS. As of January 13, they were trying to breach the campus of Mosul University, which the militants use as a military compound. Doing so, according to The Wall Street Journal, would be a major step toward taking control of the entire eastern part of the city. Yet the war is far from over; ISIS still controls western Mosul.