Footage recorded during the Battle for Mosul shows members of the Iraqi Federal Police force rescuing a group of civilians while taking fire from an Islamic State marksman.

The Battle for Mosul was a military campaign conducted by the Iraqi Federal Government, Iraqi Militia Groups, and the Kurdish Peshmerga. The intent of the operation was to move through the city of Mosul block by block, street by street, and even house by house, to clear the entire city of Islamic State Forces. The fighting began on November 1, 2016, when members of the Iraqi Special Operations community entered the city in the dead of night, and it ended in January of 2017 with the city being officially declared clear.

This was one of the first major operations conducted completely by Iraqi forces, and this footage shows members of the Iraqi Federal Police who participated in the battle doing their job to rescue civilians and clear them from the front-lines where the fighting was the most intense.