(Felipe Dana/AP)[Trapped in a house with Islamic State fighters]For nearly 21/2 years, they have lived under Islamic State rule in the group’s de facto capital in Iraq. The Iraqi army also said it had stormed the Mosul neighborhood of Intisar on Thursday, pressing farther into the city. Iraqi forces are searching houses for Islamic State fighters trying to mingle with the civilians. Just before the fighting began, he said, Islamic State gunmen intensified their search for spies and members of a popular resistance groups. The Islamic State fighters would demand identification and then check names against lists they kept on laptops.

Source: Washington Post November 03, 2016 19:47 UTC