What happens after ISIS loses Mosul?
By Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst
Updated 1701 GMT (0101 HKT) October 17, 2016
An Iraqi forces member helps a man push a car as they arrive at a refugee camp in Qayyara on October 22.
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Iraqi special forces hold a cross found in the Christian town of Bartella on October 22. Iraqi forces recaptured Bartella but still faced some resistance in the area.
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An Iraqi boy who lost an eye in fighting between government forces and ISIS poses for a photograph in the Debaga refugee camp on October 22.
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Iraqi forces hold a position on the front line, near the village of Tall al-Tibah, on Friday, October 21.
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Gen. Abdel Ghani al-Asadi, who leads Iraq's counterterrorism forces, sits in Bartella on October 21 after the town was reclaimed.
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A Kurdish Peshmerga soldier mans a post on the outskirts of Mosul on Thursday, October 20. The coalition is advancing closer to Mosul, an ISIS stronghold since 2014.
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Peshmerga fighters look over a village during an assault near Bashiqa on October 20.
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A coalition fighter covers his ears before another fires artillery on ISIS positions in Nawaran on October 20.
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Coalition fighters hold a position near Bashiqa on October 20.
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Peshmerga forces are seen during an attack on ISIS targets in the village of Naveran.
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A flag flies as Peshmerga fighters prepare to fire a rocket near Bashiqa on October 20.
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A Peshmerga fighter takes aim near Naveran on October 20.
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Iraqi soldiers travel along a road near Qayyara as clouds of black smoke rise in the sky on Wednesday, October 19.
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Iraqi special forces advance toward Mosul on Wednesday.
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Displaced people flee their homes on October 19.
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Iraqi forces fire a howitzer toward the village of Tall al-Tibah on October 19.
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Iraqi soldiers raise their weapons in celebration on the outskirts of Qayyara on October 19.
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A man stands in front of a fire from oil that had earlier been set ablaze by members of ISIS in the Qayyara area on October 19.
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Iraqi soldiers look on as smoke rises from the Qayyara area.
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A street is covered with smoke from the Qayyara fire.
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Iraqi forces head toward the front lines near Qayyara on Tuesday, October 18.
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Iraqi forces in Bajwaniyah on October 18.
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People flee their homes amid the fighting on October 18.
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Smoke rises from an ISIS position after a coalition airstrike in Mosul on October 18.
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Civilians herd sheep from a village near Mosul on October 18. The smoke came from oil wells ISIS set on fire to limit the visibility of coalition pilots.
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Kurdish Peshmerga forces are on the front line in Nineveh, Iraq, on October 18.
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A Peshmerga fighter peers up from an underground tunnel in the liberated town of Badana on October 18. ISIS fighters have built tunnels below residential streets to escape from airstrikes.
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