MOSUL, IRAQ—With the fight for Mosul in its final stage Monday, Daesh militants sent female suicide bombers hidden among fleeing civilians, while Iraqi forces and the U.S.-led coalition unleashed punishing airstrikes and artillery fire that set dozens of buildings ablaze.At least one Iraqi soldier was killed and five were wounded in the two separate suicide attacks, the military said. Monday's two suicide bombings against Iraqi soldiers followed three other such attacks by women - some of them teenagers - in the previous two days, said Sgt. “They appeared from the basement (of a building) and they blew themselves up,” Hussein said as he returned from the scene, his troops carrying the body of their slain comrade wrapped in a blanket. Iraqi forces have pushed IS out of most of Anbar, and though there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the camp attack, it had all the hallmarks of IS, which has in the past months staged large-scale attacks elsewhere in Iraq to distract from its losses in Mosul.
Three female ISIL suicide bombers kill 15 people and injure five in three separate incidents over the last two days as the fight for Mosul winds down.