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Turkish Airlines canceled previously scheduled flights to and from the Iraqi capital Baghdad and the Kurdistan Region's capital Erbil on Monday, likely as a result of the beginning of the Mosul offensive earlier on Monday morning.
The United Nations is encouraging civilians fleeing Mosul to not move to the west where the UN and aid agencies do not have access to the territory.
Speaking to the press on Monday evening Lise Grande, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator, said that aid agencies expect the majority of people fleeing Mosul to move east, and some north and south. And aid agencies are prepared to receive populations in those areas.
They are trying to pass the message to civilians in Mosul that going to the west, where ISIS retains control, will be very dangerous.
(In other words, anyone seen fleeing western Mosul will be assumed to be IS and killed. Highway 1 could become like the "Highway of Death" - like in Fallujah)
http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/161020167
Turkish Airlines canceled previously scheduled flights to and from the Iraqi capital Baghdad and the Kurdistan Region's capital Erbil on Monday, likely as a result of the beginning of the Mosul offensive earlier on Monday morning.
The United Nations is encouraging civilians fleeing Mosul to not move to the west where the UN and aid agencies do not have access to the territory.
Speaking to the press on Monday evening Lise Grande, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator, said that aid agencies expect the majority of people fleeing Mosul to move east, and some north and south. And aid agencies are prepared to receive populations in those areas.
They are trying to pass the message to civilians in Mosul that going to the west, where ISIS retains control, will be very dangerous.
(In other words, anyone seen fleeing western Mosul will be assumed to be IS and killed. Highway 1 could become like the "Highway of Death" - like in Fallujah)
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