Associated Press reported battlefield setbacks is turning this city of 7 million into an anxiety-filled place waiting for disaster to happen.
Many stores are shuttered and those that are open are doing little business in a city where streets empty hours before a 10 p.m. curfew kicks in.
Arriving international and domestic flights are half empty, while outgoing flights to the relatively safe Kurdish cities of Irbil and Suleimaniya are booked solid through late July as those who can flee.
