The Iraqi army is deploying thousands of soldiers to a northern base in preparation for operations to retake the Islamic State group’s hub of Mosul, officials said on Monday. IS seized Mosul in June 2014 and except for air strikes has held Iraq’s second city largely unopposed for more th...

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