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Ead, 13, who was injured by an explosion while fleeing with his family from his house still under ISIL control in al-Zanjili district, is transferred with his father and another injured woman, inside a military vehicle, to a safe place in west Mosul: photo by Emanuele Satolli/Al Jazeera, 5 July 2017
A member of the Iraqi army hit by an ISIL sniper during an attempt to retake Al-Shifa Hospital is carried away from the front line: photo by Emanuele Satolli/Al Jazeera, 5 July 2017
A member of the Iraqi army sits inside a building at the Zanjili front line moments after one of his comrades was killed: photo by Emanuele Satolli/Al Jazeera, 5 July 2017
A man who escaped from al-Zinjili district is helped by members of the Iraqi army, in west Mosul: photo by Emanuele Satolli/Al Jazeera, 5 July 2017
Members of the Iraqi Army pose inside the ruins of the Mosul Hotel before an attempt to retake Al-Shifa Hospital in west Mosul: photo by Emanuele Satolli/Al Jazeera, 5 July 2017
#Iraq Iraq announces a final victory in the nearly nine-month offensive to retake Mosul from jihadists. Photo Ahmad Al-Rubaye #AFP: image via Frederique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 July 2017
What time's the parade?: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePIx, 9 July 2017
The final push: Retaking Mosul from ISIL: Iraq's PM declares an end of the 'caliphate', as Iraqi forces battle to retake the city's ISIL-held area: Emanuele Satolli, Al Jazeera, 5 July 2017
But Iraqi forces do not yet have full control of the city. ISIL fighters are surrounded in a 300-by-500 metre section of the Old City beside the Tigris river.
Civilians fleeing Iraqi advances are increasingly desperate. The elderly and weak are carried across mounds of rubble in blankets. Soldiers, increasingly fearful of the Old City's inhabitants after a string of suicide bombings, hurry the groups along.
Largely cut off from food and water for months, humanitarian groups are reporting a spike in the number of displaced people suffering from malnutrition and dehydration.
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Exhausted and mourning, families emerge from #Mosul ruins. Photo Fadel Senna AFP: image via Stephane Arnaud @StephaneArnaud, 9 July 2017
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As Iraq PM declares victory in 'liberated' Mosul, exhausted and mourning, families emerge from the ruins. Photo Ahmad Al-Rubaye: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 9 July 2017
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As Iraq PM declares victory in 'liberated' Mosul, exhausted and mourning, families emerge from the ruins. Photo Ahmad Al-Rubaye: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 9 July 2017
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A man who managed to escape from his house in an ISIL-controlled area of the city takes off his shirt to prove to Iraqi forces that he is not carrying an explosive: photo by Emanuele Satolli/Al Jazeera, 5 July 2017
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Members of the Iraqi army evacuate people who managed to escape from their homes in ISIL-controlled areas of the Zanjili district in west Mosul: photo by Emanuele Satolli/Al Jazeera, 5 July 2017
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Members of the Iraqi army evacuate an elderly woman in western Mosul: photo by Emanuele Satolli/Al Jazeera, 5 July 2017
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Members of the Iraqi army run away from the frontline in the Zanjili district during an alleged chlorine chemical attack by ISIL: photo by Emanuele Satolli/Al Jazeera, 5 July 2017
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A destroyed mosque in the Old City of Mosul, during the government forces' offensive to retake the city from ISIS fighters on July 2, 2017: photo by Fadel Senna / AFP, 2 July 2017
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#Venezuela Opposition demonstrators blocking the avenue during a protest against President Maduro clash with riot police in Caracas. Photo @jbarreto1974 #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 July 2017
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#Sri Lanka A boy collects flowers in a lake at the boundary of a wildlife sanctuary in Udawalawe National Park. Photo Lakruwan Wanniarachchi #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 July 2017
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#Afghanistan Afghan women walk with their children along a road at a hilltop in Kabul. Photo @kohsar #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 July 2017
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#Libya Illegal migrants from Africa, attempting to reach Europe, react as they sit at a detention center near Guarabouli. Photo Mahmud Turkia #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 July 2017
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#USA Firefighters remove a US flag from a house as major wildfires rage across California gripped by a record-breaking heatwave. Photo @JoshEdelson: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 July 2017
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#Indonesia Filipino children play at a broken fishing boat in the garbage filled Manila Bay in Baseco, Tondo. @herme23 #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 July 2017
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Hammocks!: image via Muhammed Muheisen @Muheisen81, 9 July 2017
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A Federal Policeman walks inside a building in Mosul's damaged main hospital complex after it was retaken by Iraqi forces on July 4, 2017: photo by Felipe Dana / AP, 4 July 2017
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So, it appears the Tsarina is representing America at the #G20 #ivanka #complicit #notonmyballot: image via Scully2017 @Scully 2017, 8 July 2017
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Before and after election... UNQUALIFIED #Ivanka takes a seat any damn where it benefits her. Trait of the #TrumpCrimeFamily: image via TES @southerntalker, 8 July 2017
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Before and after election... UNQUALIFIED #Ivanka takes a seat any damn where it benefits her. Trait of the #TrumpCrimeFamily: image via TES @southerntalker, 8 July 2017
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America should be embarrassed that Trump had to have his UNELECTED and UNQUALIFIED daughter do his job at G20 #Ivanka: image via Kaivan Shroff @KaivanShroff, 8 July 2017
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This is why ISIS hate us: image via Captain Kidd @kidd_king78, 9 July 2017
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Mosul, Iraq - After eight months of a US-backed offensive to retake the city of Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, known as ISIS), Iraqi troops have finally captured the ruined Grand al-Nuri mosque and Prime Minister Haider al-Abbadi has declared the group's caliphate at an end.
But Iraqi forces do not yet have full control of the city. ISIL fighters are surrounded in a 300-by-500 metre section of the Old City beside the Tigris river.
Civilians fleeing Iraqi advances are increasingly desperate. The elderly and weak are carried across mounds of rubble in blankets. Soldiers, increasingly fearful of the Old City's inhabitants after a string of suicide bombings, hurry the groups along.
Largely cut off from food and water for months, humanitarian groups are reporting a spike in the number of displaced people suffering from malnutrition and dehydration.
Exhausted and mourning, families emerge from #Mosul ruins. Photo Fadel Senna AFP: image via Stephane Arnaud @StephaneArnaud, 9 July 2017
Exhausted and mourning, families emerge from #Mosul ruins. Photo Fadel Senna AFP: image via Stephane Arnaud @StephaneArnaud, 9 July 2017
Exhausted and mourning, families emerge from #Mosul ruins. Photo Fadel Senna AFP: image via Stephane Arnaud @StephaneArnaud, 9 July 2017
Exhausted and mourning, families emerge from #Mosul ruins. Photo Fadel Senna AFP: image via Stephane Arnaud @StephaneArnaud, 9 July 2017
As Iraq PM declares victory in 'liberated' Mosul, exhausted and mourning, families emerge from the ruins. Photo Ahmad Al-Rubaye: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 9 July 2017
As Iraq PM declares victory in 'liberated' Mosul, exhausted and mourning, families emerge from the ruins. Photo Ahmad Al-Rubaye: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 9 July 2017
As Iraq PM declares victory in 'liberated' Mosul, exhausted and mourning, families emerge from the ruins. Photo Fadel Senna: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 9 July 2017
As Iraq PM declares victory in 'liberated' Mosul, exhausted and mourning, families emerge from the ruins. Photo Fadel Senna: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 9 July 2017
As Iraq PM declares victory in 'liberated' Mosul, exhausted and mourning, families emerge from the ruins. Photo Fadel Senna: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 9 July 2017
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As Iraq PM declares victory in 'liberated' Mosul, exhausted and mourning, families emerge from the ruins. Photo Fadel Senna: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 9 July 2017
Iraq declares victory in #Mosul but at the cost of staggering destruction and unimaginable suffering. Photo Ahmad al-Rubaye AFP: image via david vujanovic @davidvujanovic, 9 July 2017
Iraq declares victory in #Mosul but at the cost of staggering destruction and unimaginable suffering. Photo Ahmad al-Rubaye AFP: image via david vujanovic @davidvujanovic, 9 July 2017
Iraq declares victory in #Mosul but at the cost of staggering destruction and unimaginable suffering. Photo Ahmad al-Rubaye AFP: image via david vujanovic @davidvujanovic, 9 July 2017
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Iraq declares victory in #Mosul but at the cost of staggering destruction and unimaginable suffering. Photo Ahmad al-Rubaye AFP: image via david vujanovic @davidvujanovic, 9 July 2017
Iraq declares victory in #Mosul but at the cost of staggering destruction and unimaginable suffering. Photo Ahmad al-Rubaye AFP: image via david vujanovic @davidvujanovic, 9 July 2017
A man who managed to escape from his house in an ISIL-controlled area of the city takes off his shirt to prove to Iraqi forces that he is not carrying an explosive: photo by Emanuele Satolli/Al Jazeera, 5 July 2017
Members of the Iraqi army evacuate people who managed to escape from their homes in ISIL-controlled areas of the Zanjili district in west Mosul: photo by Emanuele Satolli/Al Jazeera, 5 July 2017
Members of the Iraqi army evacuate an elderly woman in western Mosul: photo by Emanuele Satolli/Al Jazeera, 5 July 2017
A woman in the Zanjili district flees with her son amid the rubble to a safer area: photo by Emanuele Satolli/Al Jazeera, 5 July 2017
People flee the Zanjili district as Iraqi forces press further into the area in west Mosul: photo by Emanuele Satolli/Al Jazeera, 5 July 2017
Members of the Iraqi army run away from the frontline in the Zanjili district during an alleged chlorine chemical attack by ISIL: photo by Emanuele Satolli/Al Jazeera, 5 July 2017
Members of the Iraqi army help a fellow soldier affected with breathing difficulties after an alleged chlorine chemical attack in the Zanjili district: photo by Emanuele Satolli/Al Jazeera, 5 July 2017
A family stuck inside a house in the al-Zanjili district where the Iraqi army is advancing to cleanse the area of ISIL presence. The family could not flee with the others. The woman, Ahlam Jasem, 45, lost one leg during a mortar attack and her husband is too old to carry her. Five members of the family - two daughters, two sons and a daughter-in-law - have died since the beginning of the operation.: photo by Emanuele Satolli/Al Jazeera, 5 July 2017
Members of the Iraqi Special Forces, commonly known as the Golden Division, take an injured comrade to a field hospital: photo by Emanuele Satolli/Al Jazeera, 5 July 2017
The ruins of the Mosul Hotel in west Mosul: photo by Emanuele Satolli/Al Jazeera, 5 July 2017
Iraqi civilians flee the Old City district where heavy fighting continues in Mosul, Iraq, on July 2, 2017. Iraqi forces continue to encounter stiff resistance from Islamic State with improvised explosive devices (IEDs), car bombs, suicide bombers, heavy mortar fire and snipers hampering their advance.: photo by Martyn Aim / Corbis via Getty, 2 July 2017
A destroyed mosque in the Old City of Mosul, during the government forces' offensive to retake the city from ISIS fighters on July 2, 2017: photo by Fadel Senna / AFP, 2 July 2017
Smoke billows over the Old City after an airstrike in Mosul on July 3, 2017: photo by Felipe Dana / AP, 3 July 2017
An external view of Mosul's main hospital complex shows damage after it was retaken by Iraqi forces on July 4, 2017: photo by Felipe Dana / AP, 4 July 2017
Civilians trying to flee undress to be checked for explosives after suicide bombers attacked as Iraqi forces continued their advance against Islamic State militants in the Old City of Mosul on July 3, 2017: photo by Felipe Dana / AP, 3 July 2017
An external view of Mosul's main hospital complex, after it was retaken, on July 4, 2017: photo by Felipe Dana / AP, 4 July 2017
Destroyed vehicles around the ruins of Al-Nuri Mosque in the Old City of Mosul, on July 2, 2017: photo by Fadel Senna / AFP, 2 July 2017
Iraqi Emergency Response Division troops in the ISIS-occupied Old City district where heavy fighting continues on July 4, 2017 in Mosul: photo by Martyn Aim / Corbis via Getty, 4 July 2017
Smoke billows next to the remains of al-Hadba minaret at ruined Grand al-Nuri Mosque after an artillery attack by the ISIS on positions of the Iraqi forces in the Old City in Mosul on July 2, 2017: photo byErik de Castro / Reuters, 2 July 2017
Members of the Emergency Response Division break into buildings during a fight with Islamic State militants in the Old City of Mosul on July 3, 2017: photo by Ahmed Jadallah / Reuters, 3 July 2017
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An Iraqi boy carries a girl on his back while fleeing from the Old City of Mosul on July 5, 2017: photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye /AFP,, 5 July 2017
An Iraqi boy carries a girl on his back while fleeing from the Old City of Mosul on July 5, 2017: photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye /AFP,, 5 July 2017
#Venezuela Opposition demonstrators blocking the avenue during a protest against President Maduro clash with riot police in Caracas. Photo @jbarreto1974 #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 July 2017
#Sri Lanka A boy collects flowers in a lake at the boundary of a wildlife sanctuary in Udawalawe National Park. Photo Lakruwan Wanniarachchi #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 July 2017
#Afghanistan Afghan women walk with their children along a road at a hilltop in Kabul. Photo @kohsar #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 July 2017
#Libya Illegal migrants from Africa, attempting to reach Europe, react as they sit at a detention center near Guarabouli. Photo Mahmud Turkia #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 July 2017
#USA Firefighters remove a US flag from a house as major wildfires rage across California gripped by a record-breaking heatwave. Photo @JoshEdelson: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 July 2017
#Indonesia Filipino children play at a broken fishing boat in the garbage filled Manila Bay in Baseco, Tondo. @herme23 #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 July 2017
Hammocks!: image via Muhammed Muheisen @Muheisen81, 9 July 2017
Hammocks!: image via Muhammed Muheisen @Muheisen81, 9 July 2017
Hammocks!: image via Muhammed Muheisen @Muheisen81, 9 July 2017
Hammocks!: image via Muhammed Muheisen @Muheisen81, 9 July 2017
Happy Eid al-Fitr!: image via Muhammad Muheisen @Muheisen81, 25 June 2017
Happy Eid al-Fitr!: image via Muhammed Muheisen @Muheisen81, 25 June 2017
Happy Eid al-Fitr!: image via Muhammed Muheisen @Muheisen81, 25 June 2017
Happy Eid al-Fitr!: image via Muhammed Muheisen @Muheisen81, 25 June 2017
SYRIA - Swallows are seen perched on electric cable on the shores of Wadi Qandil. Photo @JOSEPHEID1: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 July 2017
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#Sri Lanka Elephants are seen in the elephant transit home at Udawalawe National Park. Photo Lakruwan Wanniarachchi #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 July 2017
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GAZA CITY - Fishing boats are anchored off the fishing port in Gaza City. Photo @mohmdabed #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 July 2017
#Sri Lanka Elephants are seen in the elephant transit home at Udawalawe National Park. Photo Lakruwan Wanniarachchi #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 July 2017
GAZA CITY - Fishing boats are anchored off the fishing port in Gaza City. Photo @mohmdabed #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 July 2017
A Federal Policeman walks inside a building in Mosul's damaged main hospital complex after it was retaken by Iraqi forces on July 4, 2017: photo by Felipe Dana / AP, 4 July 2017
Q is for queasy
Yesterday's panel at #G20 focused on the challenges and opportunities for women entrepreneurs globally and launched @WorldBank #WeFi #PotusatG20: image via Ivanka Trump @Ivanka Trump, 9 July 2017
#Ivanka sits in at #G20? The nerve! "Bigly" disrespect allies do not deserve #nepotism #weak: image via cassandra carolina @cassandra17lina, 8 July 2017
Gallows humor aside, there is a waterfall of wrong in here and we have to start dealing with it as a nation. #G20 #Ivanka #25thAmendment: image via Steve Marmel @Marmel, 8 July 2017
Q is for queasy, the way we feel when #Ivanka sits in for her daddy, again #G20Summit: image via cassandra carolina @cassandra17lina, 8 July 2017
So, it appears the Tsarina is representing America at the #G20 #ivanka #complicit #notonmyballot: image via Scully2017 @Scully 2017, 8 July 2017
Before and after election... UNQUALIFIED #Ivanka takes a seat any damn where it benefits her. Trait of the #TrumpCrimeFamily: image via TES @southerntalker, 8 July 2017
Before and after election... UNQUALIFIED #Ivanka takes a seat any damn where it benefits her. Trait of the #TrumpCrimeFamily: image via TES @southerntalker, 8 July 2017
Before and after election... UNQUALIFIED #Ivanka takes a seat any damn where it benefits her. Trait of the #TrumpCrimeFamily: image via TES @southerntalker, 8 July 2017
Before and after election... UNQUALIFIED #Ivanka takes a seat any damn where it benefits her. Trait of the #TrumpCrimeFamily: image via TES @southerntalker, 8 July 2017
America should be embarrassed that Trump had to have his UNELECTED and UNQUALIFIED daughter do his job at G20 #Ivanka: image via Kaivan Shroff @KaivanShroff, 8 July 2017
I once tickled Lou Reed. This is why ISIS hate us.
I'm in a private members club in Shoreditch: image via Captain Kidd @kidd_kong78, 9 July 2017
"Don't ignore me lady. If it weren't for us, you'd be speaking German right now!": image via Dean Burnett @garwboy, 7 July 2017
"I put my hand on his shoulder and said: "Mate, have you ever heard of the Darwin Awards?"": image via George @TheRealMcGack, 9 July 2017
Bush: Did you destroy our Towers? Bin Laden: No. Bush: Ok I believe you. We shall build an anti-terrorism unit together to stop attacks.: tweet via Christopher Bouzy @cbouzy, 9 July 2017
"I put my hand on his shoulder and said: "Mate, have you ever heard of the Darwin Awards?": image via Beige @MatthewBeige, 9 July 2017
I love Sleeping With the Enemy: image via Beige @MatthewBeige, 9 July 2017
These two not sure if they want to fight or fuck: image via Beige @MatthewBeige, 9 July 2017
This is why ISIS hate us (I once tickled Lou Reed)
This is why ISIS hate us: image via Captain Kidd @kidd_king78, 9 July 2017
I once tickled Lou Reed. I regretted it for the longest while as he spoke to me few times after that dinner. But I'm glad now. He needed it.: tweet via Val KilmerVerifiedaccount @valkilmer, 28 October 2013
[Thanks, she needed that]: image via Captain Kidd @kidd_king78, 9 July 2017
Someone has to do it #Herefordshire #ElizabethHurleyBeach: image via Elizabeth Hurley @ElizabethHurley, 9 July 2017
Bellinis in Portofino: image via Lord Sugar @Lord_Sugar, 9 July 2017
I'm in a private members club in Shoreditch: image via Captain Kidd @kidd_kong78, 9 July 2017
Straight off the train, straight into subway: image via Captain Kidd @kidd_kong78, 9 July 2017
This was in the bar we were at last night: image via Captain Kidd @kidd_kong78, 9 July 2017