Ninety-year-old escapes Mosul
Ninety-year-old Khatla Ali Abdallah has survived decades of turbulence in northern Iraq, but the frail grandmother who fled the battle for Mosul this week says the fighting there is the worst she has ever seen. Carried across the desert by her grandsons, under sniper and mortar fire, she was one of thousands who braved the difficult and dangerous journey out of Islamic State's shrinking stronghold in the west of the city.
"I'm a 90-year-old woman and I haven’t seen such a war," she said in a camp for displaced people south of Mosul, where she was taken by Iraqi security forces.
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Her grandsons carried her for miles in the desert to reach the CTS lines, and then she was taken on a bus to a camp for internally displaced people.
"We just want to make it through this war," she said. "This one will make stories for generations to tell."
Members of the Iraqi rapid response forces fire a missile toward Islamic State militants.
Iraqi security forces battle with Islamic State militants.
A displaced Iraqi man who just fled his home, talks to Iraqi special forces officers at their base.
A displaced Iraqi woman talks on the phone.
A boy, who just fled a village controlled by Islamic State fighters,cries as he sits with his family inside a bus.
A displaced Iraqi girl.
Displaced Iraqis walk through the desert.
Wheelchairs abandoned in the desert by displaced Iraqis.
Displaced Iraqis wait to register at the special forces base.
Displaced Iraqis are transported to refugee camps.
Smoke rises after Iraqi forces fired a missile during a battle with Islamic State militants.
A displaced Iraqi girl reacts as she flees her home in Mamoun district.
Displaced Iraqis flee their homes in Mamoun district.
Displaced Iraqis queue for food at Hammam al Alil camp.
A displaced Iraqi carries his baby as he flees his home.
A boy injured in a mortar attack walks toward a ambulance after being treated by medics in a field clinic.
A man injured in a mortar attack walks toward a ambulance after being treated by medics in a field clinic.
A woman injured in a mortar attack is treated by medics in a field clinic.
