IS courts Ninevah tribes in run-up to battle - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Saleh Elias

Saleh Elias

Apr 21, 2015

Tribesmen walk at a temporary camp set up to shelter Iraqis fleeing violence in Iraq's northern Nineveh province on June 12, 2014, in Aski kalak, 40 kms West of Arbil, in the autonomous Kurdistan region. Thousands of people who fled Iraq's second city of Mosul after it was overrun by jihadists wait in the blistering heat, hoping to enter the safety of the nearby Kurdish region and furious at Baghdad's failure to help them. many as half a million people are thought to have fled Mosul, which was captured by — Tribesmen walk at a temporary camp set up to shelter Iraqis fleeing violence in Iraq's northern Nineveh province on June 12, 2014, in Aski kalak, near Erbil. — SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images

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