In news on Iraq, the United Nations says as many as 68,000 civilians have been displaced from Mosul amid the ongoing fight by Iraqi security forces, backed by the U.S. special operations soldiers and U.S. airstrikes, to retake Mosul from ISIS. The U.N. says half of those displaced so far are children, and warns that hundreds of thousands more may be displaced in the coming weeks. This is Abu al-Abed.

Abu al-Abed: “We fled from the Aden neighborhood. We fled on foot, and the army then transported us by truck and brought us here, thank God. The situation is good. Clashes are still going on, but the army will prevail, God willing.”