A military vehicle of Peshmerga forces drives towards the town of Bashiqa, east of Mosul, during an operation to attack Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq, November 7, 2016. (Photo by Azad Lashkari/Reuters)





Peshmerga forces stand on a military vehicle in the town of Bashiqa, east of Mosul, during an operation to attack Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq, November 7, 2016. (Photo by Azad Lashkari/Reuters)





Smoke rises during clashes between Peshmerga forces and Islamic State militants in the town of Bashiqa, east of Mosul, during an operation to attack Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq, November 7, 2016. (Photo by Azad Lashkari/Reuters)





Military vehicles of Peshmerga forces drive towards the town of Bashiqa, east of Mosul, during an operation to attack Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq, November 7, 2016. (Photo by Azad Lashkari/Reuters)





Military vehicles of Peshmerga forces drive towards the town of Bashiqa, east of Mosul, during an operation to attack Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq, November 7, 2016. (Photo by Azad Lashkari/Reuters)





Military vehicles of Peshmerga forces drive towards the town of Bashiqa, east of Mosul, during an operation to attack Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq, November 7, 2016. (Photo by Azad Lashkari/Reuters)





A tank of Peshmerga forces drives towards the town of Bashiqa, east of Mosul, during an operation to attack Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq, November 7, 2016. (Photo by Azad Lashkari/Reuters)





A member of the Peshmerga forces inspects a weapon near the town of Bashiqa, east of Mosul, during an operation to attack Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq, November 7, 2016. (Photo by Azad Lashkari/Reuters)





People who are fleeing the fighting between Islamic State and the Iraqi army in the Intisar disrict of eastern Mosul, walk past a military humvee heading to safer territory in Iraq November 7, 2016. (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)





An Iraqi soldier takes a photograph with his phone as his comrade stands next to a detained man, whom the Iraqi army soldiers accused of being an Islamic State fighter, who was fleeing with his family in the Intisar disrict of eastern Mosul, Iraq, November 7, 2016. (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)





A mother, who just fled fighting between Iraqi army and Islamic State in the Intisar district of eastern Mosul, reacts after her son was detained and accused of being an Islamic State fighter in Iraq, November 7, 2016. (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)





A woman who is fleeing the fighting between Islamic State and the Iraqi army in the Intisar district of eastern Mosul, walks past a military humvee while heading to safer territory in Iraq November 7, 2016. (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)





Military vehicles of Peshmerga forces drive towards the town of Bashiqa, east of Mosul, during an operation to attack Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq, November 7, 2016. (Photo by Azad Lashkari/Reuters)





Smoke rises during clashes between Peshmerga forces and Islamic State militants in the town of Bashiqa, east of Mosul, during an operation to attack Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq, November 7, 2016. (Photo by Azad Lashkari/Reuters)





An American soldier sits in a military vehicle in the town of Bashiqa, east of Mosul, during an operation to attack Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq, November 7, 2016. (Photo by Azad Lashkari/Reuters)





U.S. military vehicles are seen in the town of Bashiqa, east of Mosul, during an operation to attack Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq, November 7, 2016. (Photo by Azad Lashkari/Reuters)





U.S. military vehicles are seen in the town of Bashiqa, east of Mosul, during an operation to attack Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq, November 7, 2016. (Photo by Azad Lashkari/Reuters)





U.S. military vehicles are seen in the town of Bashiqa, east of Mosul, during an operation to attack Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq, November 7, 2016. (Photo by Azad Lashkari/Reuters)





In this Sunday, November 6, 2016 photo, Derek Coleman, center, a volunteer medic, treats a wounded Iraqi special forces soldier at a field clinic in Gogjali, on the eastern outskirts of Mosul, Iraq. At the field hospital, teams of Iraqi and Western volunteer medics are treating a family badly burned by a car bomb, children maimed by booby-trapped explosives and soldiers suffering from shrapnel and gunshot wounds. (Photo by Marko Drobnjakovic/AP Photo)





Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers fire artillery at Islamic State positions in Bashiqa, east of Mosul, Iraq, Monday, November 7, 2016. Iraqi Kurdish fighters are exchanging heavy fighters with militants as they advance from two directions on a town held by the Islamic State group east of the city of Mosul. (Photo by Felipe Dana/AP Photo)





Kurdish Peshmerga prepare to fire artillery at Islamic State positions in Bashiqa, east of Mosul, Iraq, Monday, November 7, 2016. (Photo by Felipe Dana/AP Photo)





Iranian Kurdish female members of the Freedom Party of Kurdistan (PAK) hold a position on November 6, 2016 in an area near the town of Bashiqa, some 25 kilometres north east of Mosul, during an operation against Islamic State (IS) group jihadists to retake the main hub city. (Photo by Safin Hamed/AFP Photo)