Mortar Rounds: Shopping List and Front Line

mortar rounds: The insurgents have made a habit of bombarding areas no longer under their control and consider anyone who failed to retreat with them infidels worthy of death, according to Deutsche Welle. The shoppers pay no heed as they stock up at the market. Mortar rounds come crashing into the area with alarming frequency, exploding with a sharp, dry bang. Fruit, vegetables, eggs and cooking gas feature prominently on the shopping list cheap essentials for the city's cash-strapped inhabitants. Since then, the front line has rolled through the eastern half of Mosul, exposing its inhabitants to the fighting while pushing back the insurgents. The Iraqi military launched its campaign to end IS reign in Mosul on October 17, and the first troops entered the city on the east bank of the Tigris early in November. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.