Iraqi forces close in on Mosul mosque

Iraqi army helicopters strafed and fired rockets at Islamic State positions in Mosul's Old City on Sunday as troops on the ground closed in on the strategic and symbolic prize of the al-Nuri Mosque, as residents fled from the area. Saira Jaffer reports.

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