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Aid Group: Thousands Have Fled Mosul


A displaced woman who is fleeing from clashes holds her baby in Qayyarah, during an operation to attack Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq, Oct. 19, 2016.

The international charity Save the Children says thousands of people have fled the Mosul area in order to escape the unfolding offensive by Iraqi and Kurdish forces to retake the city from Islamic State militants.

The aid group said about 5,000 people have arrived in the past 10 days at a refugee camp over the border in Syria, which risks being overwhelmed as more people flee.

"These families arrive with nothing but the clothes on their backs and find almost nothing to help them," said Tarik Kadir, who heads the charity's Mosul response. Alarm is rising about the prospects for civilians caught in the middle of the likely weeks-long, if not months, battle to retake the Islamic State’s last major urban stronghold in Iraq.

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