After nearly nine months of fighting, Iraq's prime minister says Mosul has been liberated from ISIS.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi arrived in the city Sunday to announce the mission's success.
The city has been an ISIS stronghold for the past three years. Iraqi forces, with the help of U.S.-led airstrikes, have been fighting to take back the city since October.
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In January, the Iraqi government announced the eastern city had been fully liberated, but pushing ISIS out of the western side of the city was more difficult.
According to a United Nations aid organization, hundreds of thousands of civilians have been pushed out of Mosul since the fight to reclaim the city began.
