Mosul, Iraq. A homemade car constructed by ISIS to carry out a suicide attack blocks a road in the Al Hayy az Zarai neighborhood of eastern Mosul. According to conflict researchers ISIS has used more suicide bombers in Mosul than any other conflict in history. For more than two and half years Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city has been under the control of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil). Since October of 2016, Iraq Special Forces with the help of the American military implementing coalition airstrikes has begun the battle to take back Mosul. The east bank of Mosul has been fully liberated by the Iraq military, but the west bank is still under ISIS control. The final stage to liberate the west bank of Mosul has yet to begun, but a more intense battle is expected.
