The Iraqi government said the city of Mosul has been recaptured from the Islamic State after a nine-month battle
Sunday, July 9, 2017 9:29 AM EDT
Dressed in a military uniform, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi arrived here in Mosul on Sunday to congratulate Iraq’s armed forces on its victory over the Islamic State and mark the formal end of a bloody campaign that lasted nearly nine months, left much of Iraq’s second-largest city in ruins, killed thousands of people and displaced nearly a million more.
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