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'New York Times' Reporter Documents One Man's Long War In Iraq

NPR

Published June 21, 2017 at 1:40 PM EDT

Debris covers a street of Mosul's Old City on June 21, 2017, during the ongoing offensive by Iraqi forces to retake the last district still held by the Islamic State (IS) group. (AFP/Getty Images)

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Maj. Sajjad al-Hour has been fighting for nearly half his life. Today, he commands 150 soldiers through the streets of Mosul.

A video from The New York Times documents what al-Hour is doing, and shows the nature of the brutal street-to-street fighting as Iraqi troops try to retake the city from ISIS, a fight that started last October.

Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson speaks with Ben C. Solomon (@bcsolomon), the New York Times reporter who produced the video.