This town has resisted Islamic State for 18 months. But food is running low.
Families in Haditha receive sacks of flour in a food aid delivery July 16. Prices of food and gasoline have skyrocketed in the town after supply routes were cut off. (Loveday Morris/The Washington
By Loveday Morris-July 21HADITHA, Iraq — One by one, the cities around this Iraqi town have fallen. Fallujah. Ramadi. The walled community of Hit.
Islamic State fighters have slaughtered thousands of people as they have tightened their grip on Iraq’s western province of Anbar. But Haditha has remained an outpost of resistance.
