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US soldier with the 4th Platoon, Bravo Company I-327th Infantry 1st Battalion 101st Airborne Division Air Assault takes position during a patrol in Siniyah, north of Tikrit, November 23, 2007. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandin
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Nine-year-old Iraqi girl Meriam smiles as she sits next to her father Hassan in a house, east of Mosul, Iraq July 28, 2017. Picture taken July 28, 2017. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem
Lost Children … Another Challenge in Iraq’s Mosul
Mosul- Thousands of children have been separated from their parents in the nine-month battle for Mosul and the preceding years of ISIS rule in northern Iraq – some found wandering alone and afraid among the rubble, others joining the refugee exodus from the...Caption:
Iraqi men play dominos at a cafe in the old city in west Mosul on July 30, 2017. SAFIN HAMED / AFP
Iraqis in East Mosul both Fear and Hope for the Future
Mosul- Iraqi merchants and shoppers jostle in the lively open-air market of Gogjali on the eastern edges of Mosul, their voices often drowned out by the honking horns of cars. “Mosul will never be the same again,” sighs Yunes Abdullah, a 60-year-old former...Caption:
Souhayla, a 16-year-old girl who escaped ISIS after three years of captivity, at her uncle’s home in Shariya Camp, Iraq. Credit Alex Potter for The New York Times
Freed From ISIS, Yazidi Women Return in ‘Severe Shock’
SHARIYA CAMP, Iraq — The 16-year-old lies on her side on a mattress on the floor, unable to hold up her head. Her uncle props her up to drink water, but she can barely swallow. Her voice is so weak, he places his ear directly over her mouth to hear her. The girl,...Caption:
A displaced woman sits near the ruined Grand al-Nuri Mosque in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq, July 1, 2017. CREDIT: REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani