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U.N. expands civilian camps as air strikes resume on Mosul

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Iraqi Federal Police members rest during a battle with IS militants in Mosul, Iraq on April 4, 2017. Photo -
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 The United Nations said on Tuesday it is expanding camps for displaced people around Mosul, as air strikes resumed on IS militant group positions in Iraq's second largest city.

More than 300,000 people have fled Mosul since the start of the U.S.-backed campaign in October, the office of the U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq said in a statement. 

Mosul had a pre-campaign population of about a million and half, split more or less evenly between the sides lying east and west of the Tigris river that runs through the middle.

Iraqi forces captured the eastern side in January and in February launched a second phase to take the western side, with air and ground support from a U.S.-led coalition.

They are now battling to take the northwestern part, but the civilian death toll has mounted in the densely populated Old City, where the militants are dug in amongst residents.

More people are expected to flee the fighting and camps for the displaced north and east of Mosul are expanding, the U.N. statement said.

Air strikes on the city by the Iraqi air force resumed on Tuesday as the sky cleared after several days of bad weather, the Iraqi military said.

A number of IS commanders were killed in an air strike on a position in Hay Al Tanak, a stronghold of the group in the west of Mosul, the Iraqi military said in statement.

Among those killed were commanders in charge of booby traps, of suicide fighters and child recruitment, the statement added, without identifying them by name.

IS media outlets did not mention the strike.

The improved weather should also allow ground forces to resume their advance toward the Grand Al Nuri Mosque.

The current phase of the campaign is the most difficult as narrow alleyways in the densely populated old city limit the use of artillery, air power and armoured vehicles.

An explosion in western Mosul last month killed between 60 and 240 people, according to various accounts.

U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, flew into Iraq on Monday with the top U.S. general to get a first-hand assessment of the battle against IS from U.S. commanders on the ground and Iraqi leaders.

The trip comes as Trump examines ways to accelerate a campaign that U.S. and Iraqi officials say has so far largely succeeded in uprooting IS in Iraq and Syria.

Source: Timesofoman

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