Life and business return to parts of Iraq's Mosul
Explosions can be heard a few blocks away but butcher Haj Fawzi is wielding his cleaver again as he greets customers at a reopened market in liberated east Mosul. "What we would still need is to be able to come and go freely to get our supplies," said Haj Ramzi, who runs another butcher's shop facing his brother's. The entire area around the city is a military area, where tens of thousands of Iraqi forces are closing in on die-hard jihadists from the Islamic State group defending their last major Iraqi bastion.