Casualties mount as Iraqis press deeper into IS-held Mosul
MOSUL, Iraq — Zahida Fathi sat on a military-issued cot, rocking back and forth and repeating the names of the dead — her husband and six of her children, killed when a car bomb exploded near their home as they were trying to flee clashes between Iraqi forces and Islamic State fighters in the city of Mosul.
“They all died, they all died,” she said, her right hand and arm bandaged with a dressing.