The battle with ISIL for the university had been a harsh lesson for Iraqi troops and although it was won, the war in nearby neighbourhoods continued.
The National: Mosul university – once ISIL’s weapons factory, now a liberated ruin

The battle with ISIL for the university had been a harsh lesson for Iraqi troops and although it was won, the war in nearby neighbourhoods continued.
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.
ISIS used a sinkhole outside Mosul to dispose of its victims, a place already used by Saddam Hussein to make people disappear.
The Arta FM station strives to remain impartial, and focuses its reporting not on the war, but on the everyday lives of […]