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Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Iraqi Vice President Nuri al-Maliki during their meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia, July 25, 2017. Sputnik/Alexei Nikolsky/Kremlin via REUTERS
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AP file photo: Iraqi Army soldiers inspect a suicide car bomb in a Mosul neighborhood
Booby-traps Plague North Iraq, Targeting Returning Civilians
Mosul- As people return home to Mosul and other areas of northern Iraq freed from ISIS, homemade bombs and explosives laid on an industrial scale by the insurgents are claiming hundreds of victims and hampering efforts to bring life back to normal. Houses, schools,...Caption:
A classroom at the University of Mosul after the city’s liberation in June. (Mohamed El-Shahed/AFP/Getty Images)
How ISIS Nearly Stumbled on the Ingredients for a ‘Dirty Bomb’
On the day ISIS overran the Iraqi city of Mosul in 2014, it laid claim to one of the greatest weapons bonanzas ever to fall to a terrorist group: a large metropolis dotted with military bases and garrisons stocked with guns, bombs, rockets and even battle tanks. But...Caption:
Haitham Behnam, a 34-year-old Iraqi Christian man who fled the violence in Mosul after ISIS seized control of the northern Iraqi city, stands at his auto repair workshop where he works as a mechanic in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on July 20, 2017. SAFIN HAMED / AFP
Mosul’s Christians Rule out their Return after ISIS Defeat
The militants may have been ousted from their Iraqi hometown of Mosul but many Christians like Haitham Behnam refuse to go back and trade in the stability of their new lives. “There’s no security, no protection for Christians back there,” said the...Caption:
An old bridge destroyed by clashes in Mosul, Iraq. Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters