In Iraq, U.S. warplanes launched airstrikes on Mosul today, as the Iraqi Army fought to reclaim the city from ISIS. Hundreds of residents poured out of the city’s eastern neighborhoods to escape the violence.

Mosul resident: “We fled the Quds neighborhood to escape the mortars. Mortars would constantly fall on us. The situation there was difficult. Everything is expensive. We were starving.”

Iraqi security forces are screening the displaced residents and busing them to camps east of Mosul. But many camp residents say cold and wet weather has made conditions so miserable that they’re desperate to leave. As many as 1 million people remain trapped inside Mosul with increasingly limited access to food and drinking water.