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After Mosul: The Iraqi towns still under IS control

With Iraqi forces close to retaking full control of the city of Mosul, so-called Islamic State (IS) is about to lose its last - and largest - urban bastion in Iraq. Elsewhere in Iraq, though, the jihadist group still controls a number of towns.

Mina Al-Lami writes for BBC News:

With Iraqi forces close to retaking full control of the city of Mosul, so-called Islamic State (IS) is about to lose its last - and largest - urban bastion in Iraq.

Elsewhere in Iraq, though, the jihadist group still controls a number of towns.