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Heat is rising in the Middle East, ISIS is being their attacks to claim territory in Iraq. Mosul is the latest that the terrorist group has begun fighting for. With suicide bombings and craze attacks on the city, death counts are high but the amount fleeing is even higher. Iraqi Security Forces and Kurdish troops are working on ending the ISIS attacks, hardly making it in time to stop suicide bombings, this is a battle ISIS is dedicating lives to win. Turkish air strikes, led by the US coalition, Iraqi soldier killed while pushing back ISIS troops. 9 villages have been liberated, troops are ahead of schedule for stoping the radical group. Mosul has been a stronghold for the terror group, they are not willing to loose this territory. This is alarming because peoples lives are being put into danger, fleeing is high and death tolls can only rise in this battle. While it is not correct to declare war on the terror group, we are in the midst of the early stages of war.