• Smoke rises from burning oil fields in Qayara, 50 kilometres south of Mosul. Felipe Dana / AP Photo
    Smoke rises from burning oil fields in Qayara, 50 kilometres south of Mosul. Felipe Dana / AP Photo
  • An Iraqi army soldier stands at the entrance of a tent at the Qayara air base, south of Mosul. Felipe Dana / AP Photo
    An Iraqi army soldier stands at the entrance of a tent at the Qayara air base, south of Mosul. Felipe Dana / AP Photo
  • People walk on a street as smoke rises from burning oil fields in Qayara. Felipe Dana / AP Photo
    People walk on a street as smoke rises from burning oil fields in Qayara. Felipe Dana / AP Photo
  • An Iraqi special forces soldier holds a rocket propelled grenade launcher in Bazwaya. Marko Drobnjakovic / AP Photo
    An Iraqi special forces soldier holds a rocket propelled grenade launcher in Bazwaya. Marko Drobnjakovic / AP Photo
  • An Iraqi army soldier walks to a tent at the Qayara air base, south of Mosul. Felipe Dana / AP Photo
    An Iraqi army soldier walks to a tent at the Qayara air base, south of Mosul. Felipe Dana / AP Photo

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Iraqi forces converge on Mosul in fight to drive out ISIL – in pictures

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For two weeks, Iraqi forces and their Kurdish allies and other groups have been converging on Mosul from multiple directions to drive ISIL from Iraq’s second largest city.

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