An Iraqi soldier walks along a street in Mosul's devastated Old City as Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declares victory against Islamic State forces in Mosul on July 9, 2017.<br />
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After nine months of intense fighting between Iraqi forces and the Islamic State group, victory is achieved at a heavy cost to Mosul's residents with an estimated 9,000 to 11,000 civilians killed according to an Associated Press investigation, and a city left in ruins following a prolonged campaign of aerial bombardment and shell fire.