In the ruins of the Old City, residents who escape increasingly desperate militants are then faced with Iraqi troops suspicious of suicide bombers.
The National: Battle-weary civilians tread a perilous path out of Mosul
In the ruins of the Old City, residents who escape increasingly desperate militants are then faced with Iraqi troops suspicious of suicide bombers.
ISIS used a sinkhole outside Mosul to dispose of its victims, a place already used by Saddam Hussein to make people disappear.
With fighting still ongoing on the other side of the river, some semblance of normality is slowly returning to eastern Mosul.
Plagued by conflict, injury and loss, the enclave’s youth are its silent victims.
Iraqi prime minister Haider Al Abadi declared the city of Mosul liberated in July 2017. But that diesn’t mean life has returned […]