It doesn't get much attention in the U.S. press, but Iraq has managed to solve their prison population problem - they don't take prisoners.

The Battle of Mosul has been going on for seven months now - longer than Stalingrad.
More than 90% of Mosul has been liberated from ISIS, leaving an area of just 9 square-kilometers. The fight for the last 10% promises to be catastrophically awful.

The Battle of Mosul is nearing an end. Soon Daesh will have been chased from Iraq.
That's what has some people very nervous.

Earlier this week a U.S. airstrike in Mosul slaughtered over 200 innocent civilians.
Initially the Pentagon denied being responsible.

230 innocent civilians were killed in Mosul in a single night from U.S. bombs. The American media barely noticed.
It's not like we were responsible. Those hundreds of dead women and children were “human shields” for ISIS snipers, so it was their fault.

I don't want to post this article from Rudaw, especially the slideshow of photographs, but we're grownups, right? We need to face the reality of our foreign policy.

http://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/180320171

Mosul residents flee the city with dead bodies of loved ones
By Rudaw 18/3/2017

are closer to temporary safety than this family pictured last week.

An Iraqi special forces soldier helps a family carry their child to cross from Islamic State controlled part of Mosul to Iraqi forces controlled part of Mosul, Iraq, March 4, 2017. Picture taken March 4, 2017. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY – RTS11IXU

Remember when Aleppo was an international crisis that had to be stopped?
At least that is what the American media said.

‘Aleppo is falling, Mosul liberated’
'Hell' in Aleppo, 'Collateral Losses' in Mosul

U.S.-coalition aircraft bombed a children's hospital in Mosul today.
This wasn't the first Mosul hospital we bombed.

Three weeks ago we bombed another hospital in Mosul.
The only difference is that the first hospital we knowingly, and intentionally targeted.

You probably weren't aware of this.