In Iraq, as many as 1 million people are trapped inside Mosul with increasingly limited access to food and drinking water, as the U.S.-backed Iraqi military’s campaign to retake the city from ISIS has slowed nearly to a halt. The campaign was launched in mid-October. U.S. officials are now saying the battle could last another two to four months. The United Nations says 700 civilians were wounded by the ongoing fighting in the second week of December alone. Tens of thousands of civilians have already been displaced.