A Lethal Mistake Leads to a Harrowing Ambush in Iraq's Mosul

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT World http://ift.tt/2gHPri8
via IFTTT As Iraqi forces advanced toward the al-Salam hospital in Mosul earlier this week, encountering only light resistance from Islamic State fighters, commanders decided to seize the facility instead of sweeping the neighborhoods along the road leading to it.