A member of Iraq’s Rapid Response Division stands near the body of a fighter from the Islamic State (IS) group during an ongoing offensive by Iraqi troops to retake the northern city from IS jihadists, on February 24, 2017. Iraqi forces entered west Mosul neighbourhoods, a key stronghold in the shrinking “caliphate” of the Islamic State group, which replied with deadly suicide attacks in Iraq and Syria. The elite Counter-Terrorism Service that did most of the fighting in the four-month-old Mosul offensive entered a neighbourhood further west along the city’s southern limits. /RSS / AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS