MOSUL, Iraq—Ali Muhammad Khalif buried his wife, sister and two nephews recently and left a grave open beside them for his son, whose body was too difficult to retrieve from near the front lines here. Islamic State had planted a bomb just outside Mr. Khalif’s front door in western Mosul to prepare for an expected advance by Iraqi troops. The family saw the extremists set up the booby trap and was forced to live with it, and a few...

Source: Wall Street Journal March 05, 2017 18:33 UTC