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In this Wednesday, April 5, 2017 photo, Intisar Jadan Sultan, left, sits with her family in a tent at the Khazer refugee camp, in east Mosul, Iraq. One of Sultan's sons, six-year-old Mustafa suffers nightmares, cries at the sound of airplanes and occasionally wets himself, symptoms that worsened last year when an explosion in Mosul killed his cousin and wounded his father before his eyes. Countless Iraqis, including many children, suffer trauma brought on by years of war, an epidemic that has overwhelmed the country’s limited mental health facilities. (AP Photo/Yesica Fisch)

Iraqis haunted by war overwhelm mental health facilities

By YESICA FISCH and BALINT SZLANKO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, March 24, 2017, file photo, civil protection rescue teams work on the debris of a destroyed house to recover the body of people killed during fighting between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State militants on the western side of Mosul, Iraq. Iraqis in the northern city of Mosul are still burying their dead after a U.S. airstrike allegedly killed more than 100 people last week, and rights groups are expressing alarm over a recent spike in civilian deaths. Iraqi officials have defended their conduct in the war against the Islamic State group, and their advice to civilians to shelter in place as U.S.-backed forces seek to drive the extremists from their last urban stronghold in the country. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

US opens formal investigation into civilian deaths in Mosul

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

U.S. sees more civilian casualties as campaign against militants intensifies

By Carlo Munoz The Washington Times - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, file photo, U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend talks with an Iraqi officer during a tour north of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Ali Abdul Hassan, File)

‘Fair chance’ American airstrikes caused mass civilian casualties in Mosul, top U.S. general says

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Rescue teams work on the debris of a destroyed house to recover the bodies of people killed during fighting between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State militants. (Associated Press)

U.S. commanders: New rules not to blame for civilian deaths in Iraq

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool Abdullah, an Iraqi joint command spokesman, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) ** FILE **

US denies loosening rules for avoiding civilian casualties

By SINAN SALAHEDDIN and ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

The Pentagon pushed back against reports that an aggressive string of recent U.S. military sorties have killed hundreds of civilians in Iraq and Syria. Defense Secretary James Mattis reportedly has been weighing a loosening of restrictions on U.S. airstrikes that the Obama administration kept in place in war against the Islamic State in Iraq, current and former U.S. officials have said. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Pentagon defends targeting as reports of civilian death tolls rise

By Guy Taylor and Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Relatives and friends bury the body of Khadeer Hassan, who was killed during fighting between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State militants, on the western side of Mosul, Iraq, Saturday, March 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

US command: Mosul airstrikes were at the request of Iraq

By SINAN SALAHEDDIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 9, 2017 file photo, a large cloud of smoke rises during fighting between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State militants as civilians walk toward Iraqi security forces after fleeing their homes on the western side of Mosul, Iraq. Some 40 square kilometers on the western bank of the Tigris River is the Islamic State group’s last major stand in Iraq. In addition to Mosul’s so-called right bank, IS still controls a handful of small pockets of Iraqi territory and a swath of Syria’s north including the group’s self-proclaimed capital, Raqqa. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

In Mosul, a heavy but not crushing blow to IS group

By SUSANNAH GEORGE - Associated Press

This file image made from video posted on a militant website Saturday, July 5, 2014, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, delivering a sermon at a mosque in Iraq during his first public appearance. Al-Baghdadi released a new message late on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016, encouraging his followers to keep up the fight for the city of Mosul, which they are defending against Iraqi government forces, the SITE Intelligence Group, a U.S. organization that monitors militant activity online said Thursday. (Militant video via AP, File)

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISIS leader, still alive, Pentagon says

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Iraqi security forces advance during fighting against Islamic State militants, in western Mosul, Iraq, Monday, March 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Iraqi forces storm Mosul government complex, hoist flag

By SUSANNAH GEORGE and SINAN SALAHEDDIN - Associated Press

Iraqi security forces advance during fighting against Islamic State militants, in western Mosul, Iraq, Monday, March 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Iraq welcomes removal from revised US travel ban

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SINAN SALAHEDDIN - Associated Press

Iraqi security forces advanced during fighting against Islamic State militants in western Mosul on Monday. In a series of fast-paced developments, coalitions suddenly closed in on a key provincial government complex in the city's Dawasa enclave, prompting a wave of optimistic projections from Iraqi commanders. (Associated Press)

ISIS defeat in Mosul expected within weeks; coalitions make quick progress

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

UN: If confirmed, chemical attacks in Mosul a war crime

Associated Press

FILE - In this undated file photo released by a militant website, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, militants of the Islamic State group hold up their weapons and wave flags on their vehicles, in a convoy on a road leading to Iraq, from Raqqa, Syria. A major battle to liberate the northern Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State militants is looming, with U.S. officials looking to build on momentum from the battlefields in Mosul. Armed with a new Pentagon plan to “rapidly defeat” the militants in both countries, President Donald Trump is now mulling options for upping the fight, which a top U.S. commander says he expects to be concluded within six months. (Militant website via AP, File)

Rivals in Syria race to assault militants’ ‘capital’ Raqqa

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Iraqi special forces take cover on a roof overlooking Islamic State group positions, in the Mamun neighborhood of western Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, March 2, 2017. Iraqi forces have retaken a handful of neighborhoods on Mosul's southwestern edge since launching the operation to retake the city's western half last month, but IS fighters continued to launch fierce counterattacks on Iraqi positions inside Mosul. (AP Photo/Susannah George)

Thousands flee Iraq’s Mosul overnight, as fighting rages on

Associated Press

IS using more suicide vehicles and armed drones in Mosul

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Iraqi security forces advance during fighting against Islamic State militants in the western side of Mosul, Iraq, Saturday, Feb. 25. 2017. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

Iraq: Police Commandos recapture new neighborhood in Mosul

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SUSANNAH GEORGE - Associated Press

Iraqi forces facing stiff resistance in western Mosul

By SUSANNAH GEORGE - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017 photo, U.S. Army soldiers stand outside their armored vehicle on a joint base with Iraqi army south of Mosul, Iraq. As Iraqi forces push into western Mosul coalition troops are closer to frontline fighting than ever before. Coalition forces have moved their bases closer to the front, relaxed their rules of engagement and during the push on Mosul airport coalition advisors were embedded with forward Iraqi rapid response and special forces units. Coalition officials say the change is helping speed up Iraqi military gains, but it marks a steady escalation of U.S. involvement in Iraq that could undermine the sustainability of Iraq's territorial victories. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

US changes rules of engagement for Mosul fight in Iraq

By SUSANNAH GEORGE and BALINT SZLANKO - Associated Press