Iraqis on Edge of Mosul Face a Deadly Dilemma: Stay or Flee

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT World http://ift.tt/2eBEL4i
via IFTTT Bayda Muhammad Khalaf followed the government's advice to stay in her home with her husband and seven children as Iraqi troops advanced near their remote village outside militant-held Mosul. But after the Islamic State fighters fled and Iraqi troops didn't appear, their tiny supply of food quickly ran out, and the family had to flee to search for territory firmly under government control.