Iraqi forces in Mosul fired shots into the air to disperse an unruly crowd that had gathered around aid delivery trucks. After six weeks, food supplies are running low. Fresh water is also difficult to come by, because a water main was destroyed. Also, a sandstorm that had been helping the Islamic State militants is subsiding.
At least 115 people were killed and 124 were wounded in recent violence:
In Mosul, shelling left 25 civilians dead and 80 wounded. Twelve people were killed and 30 were injured in a suicide bombing. Up to 40 militants were killed during a clearing operation. Resistance forces stabbed a militant commander to death. An airstrike killed a militant who worked at a radio station; he was a rapper and dissident from Tunisia.
Kurdish forces killed four militants in Darbandikhan and Ponala. However, the bombers may have also killed 13 civilians.
Militants killed 12 people near Shirqat on Friday night.
A fire at the Debaga displacement camp killed two refugees and wounded seven more.
In Baghdad, a bomb killed two people and wounded seven more in Sabaa al-Bour.
Two militants were killed in Anbar province when they tried to attack an army barracks.
