For one brigadier in Iraq’s elite Counter Terrorism Service (CTS), the final stage of liberating the eastern half of Mosul was personal: he could rescue his relatives. On Wednesday, as Iraqi forces were conducting clearance operations in the last contested neighborhoods, the brigadier – who requested anonymity because his actions were not sanctioned by superiors – left his vehicle and went searching for an aunt he hadn’t seen for over 15 years. Down an alleyway in the Muhandiseen neighborhood, which IS had […]