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Residents of Mosul, Iraq, fought to pre- vent their home city from being overrun by ISIS forces.

As ISIS marches across the desert toward Baghdad, the Iraqi army tries to stop the group. It fails. Soldiers run away in retreat. ISIS militants seize billions of dollars in weapons and equipment left behind by the US military. The terrorists aren’t afraid to die. That’s the least of their worries. They only want to destroy and kill. The world watches in horror as ISIS fighters seize the Iraqi cities of Mosul, Tikrit, Fallujah, and Ramadi. As they move through these cities, ISIS beheads their enemies and foreign journalists. They kidnap women and use them as slaves. They stone others to death. All the while they videotape their actions and broadcast them around the world. They hope to rally others to their cause.

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