Mosul
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To track down the books, he has had to travel 400 kilometres south to Baghdad, and even a further 600 kilometres to Basra.
The so-called Islamic State is only days away from dying in a tiny village that until recently, few even in Syria had ever heard of.
A year and a half after Iraqi forces recaptured Mosul from IS, residents have been hiring local photographers to capture mementos of their city's darkest days.
Her decision comes days after MPs and local officials from Mosul made accusations online that her brother, Layth al-Hayali, was an IS member.
In Mosul, the average hair implant procedure costs around $800, including the follow-up after the operation.
Nine of the city’s 13 hospitals are damaged and that means there are 1,000 hospital beds available rather than 3,000, said Heman Nagarathm, Iraq Head of Mission for MSF.
Incumbent Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is considered by analysts to be marginally ahead but victory is far from certain.
The official told Reuters the oilfields and the air base west of Kirkuk were still under Kurdish control.
Iraqi government troops captured the town of Mosul from Islamic State in June, but only after eight months of grinding urban warfare.
The city, which had a pre-war population of about 200,000, lies on the supply route between Syria and Mosul, 80 km to the east.
The offensive on Tal Afar, which lies on the supply route between Syria and the former Islamic State stronghold of Mosul, started on 20 August.
Islamic State's self-proclaimed "caliphate" effectively collapsed with the fall of Mosul but parts of Iraq and Syria remain however under its control.
Some were intercepted but many evaded security forces and began setting up bases for their new operations.
Even though the Sunni Muslim group's caliphate is now crumbling, it is expected to revert to an insurgency and keep carrying out attacks in the Middle East and West.
Stripped of Mosul, IS’s dominion in Iraq will be reduced to mainly rural, desert areas west and south of the city.
Iraq’s prime minister declared victory over Islamic State in Mosul on Monday, three years after the militants seized the city.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has been meeting military and political officials in Mosul in a festive atmosphere.
Islamic State’s defeat in Mosul three years after taking the city is a major blow for the hard-line Sunni Islamist group.