Two boys look out of a truck in a convoy carrying families fleeing
Islamic State-held Hit, Iraq, at a checkpoint on the western edge of
Ramadi, Iraq. Much of Iraq’s north and west fell to the Islamic State
group in the summer of 2014, but over the past year Iraq’s military has
slowly regained pockets of territory. While IS still controls a large
swath of Iraq and neighboring Syria, the group has lost an estimated 40
percent of the territory it once held in Iraq, according to U.S.-led
coalition officials.
