BAGHDAD: For one policeman, the battle for Mosul is a chance to return home as part of victorious Iraqi forces two years after leaving the city in defeat.

Ahmed, whose last name is being withheld to protect his family from reprisals, fought against the Islamic State group and was wounded by a suicide bomber in June 2014, when the jihadists overran Mosul.

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