The remnants of conflict are startling, sometimes more so in close-up. Outside Mosul, Iraq, the battle to retake the city from ISIS forces began in October 2016 with the Iraq Army, international allies, and militias moving street to street, house to house in the ongoing offensive. This three inch hole is the damage from a .50 caliber bullet piercing a house that had been occupied for three years by ISIS but is now a forward operating base used by the U.S. Army.

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