In the photo: military convoy of Kurdish soldiers moving to the front line near the town of Hazer, located east of Mosul.
The Islamists are trying to hold territory and literally cling to every piece of land. In addition to counterattacking, the militants strengthen the city, ready to repel the attacks of the Iraqi military and its allies. One of such counterattacks is an arson of oil wells.
In the photo: poisonous fumes rising from the sulfur factory, set on fire by militants, near the town of Kayyara.
Militants left behind a burning oil well near the town of Kayyara located south of Mosul.
In the photo: Kurdish fighters - Peshmerga - sit in the trenches on the outskirts of a village, not far from the Hazer.
Since the beginning of the fighting, the area surrounding Kayyara and the city itself have become a huge refugee camp. Assistance to the civilians is provided by the UN World Food Programme.
In the city of Dibaga, nearby Mosul, there is a camp for displaced persons.
In the photo: people are expecting to take the humanitarian aid.
The barbaric attitude to foreign cultural objects most accurately describes actions of the ISIS militants. One of the evidences of such sharp rejection of other cultures and religions is the ruined reproduction of the famous painting "The Last Supper" - the faces of Jesus Christ and his apostles were completely erased.
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