Iraq’s Shiite militias join Mosul push; bombs rock Baghdad
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and BRIAN ROHAN, Associated Press
Published: October 30, 2016, 5:27pm
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A girl plays outside her home in the Yahyawa camp for internally displaced Turkmen on the outskirts of Kirkuk, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016. Over 600 families from Tel Afar, a town west of Mosul, have been living in the camp for 2 years and are hoping for their town to be liberated from ISIS so they can return to their homes. (Felipe Dana/Associated Press)Photo Gallery
IRBIL, Iraq — Thousands of fighters flocked to join Iraq’s state-sanctioned, Iran-backed Shiite militias on Sunday, advancing to cut off Islamic State extremists holed up near Mosul in northern Iraq while bombers killed at least 17 people in Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad.
Militia spokesmen said that some 5,000 fighters had joined their push to encircle from the west the country’s second-largest city of Mosul, the IS militants’ last bastion in Iraq, which is linked by road to territory it holds in Syria.
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