In fight for Iraq’s second city, Iraqi elite forces admit to struggling with IS’s endless supply of mechanised suicide bombers.
Middle East Eye: Battle for Mosul – How IS is making life tough for Iraq’s elite forces

In fight for Iraq’s second city, Iraqi elite forces admit to struggling with IS’s endless supply of mechanised suicide bombers.
With fighting still ongoing on the other side of the river, some semblance of normality is slowly returning to eastern Mosul.
As Iraqi forces push into ISIS-held Mosul, desperate civilians are on the run from snipers, booby traps and suicide bombers.
Plagued by conflict, injury and loss, the enclave’s youth are its silent victims.
The Kurds and the Shiite units have proven ISIL’s most effective opponents, but in Jalawla, the differences between the reluctant brothers in […]