The United Nations last month warned that more than 400,00 people, more than half the remaining population in western Mosul, could be displaced. ARIS MESSINIS via Getty Images An Iraqi woman and her child walk down a road as they flee Mosul on March 3, 2017. Baghdadi proclaimed the caliphate from Mosul’s grand Nuri mosque, in the old city center which is still under his followers’ control. ARIS MESSINIS via Getty Images Iraqi families walk down a road as they flee Mosul on March 3, 2017. ARIS MESSINIS via Getty Images Iraqi families walk down a road as they flee Mosul on March 3, 2017.

Source: Huffington Post March 05, 2017 16:52 UTC