Over 100,000 Iraqis escape ISIS

More than 100,000 people have escaped ISIS as a result of the massive operation to recapture Iraq’s second city Mosul, the International Organization for Migration said on Sunday.

More than 100,000 people have escaped ISIS as a result of the massive operation to recapture Iraq’s second city Mosul, the International Organization for Migration said on Sunday.

Iraqi Displacement and Migration Minister Jassem Mohammed al-Jaff told AFP that 118,000 people had been displaced since the operation started, a figure that includes those who fled the ISIS-held Hawijah area in another province.

Iraq launched the operation to retake Mosul – the last Iraqi city held by the so-called Islamic State militant group – on October 17.

Since the battle began, 103,872 people have been displaced, the vast majority from Nineveh province, of which Mosul is the capital, the IOM said on its displacement tracking webpage.