Thomson Reuters MOSUL/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqis prepared on Sunday to celebrate an expected victory over Islamic State in Mosul, just blocks away from battles raging in the last few districts where the militants are dug in. Troops tied white banners and Iraqi flags to lamp posts and damaged buildings including the Hadba minaret, which […]
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Life after liberation: West Point report shows ISIS danger remains in Syria, Iraq
Islamic State militants continue to haunt cities in Iraq and Syria officially liberated from their control, while the devastation caused by the fighting poses challenges for restoring basic services, says a new study from the US Military Academy. Authors Daniel Milton and Muhammad al-Ubaydi from the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point looked at 11 […]
Death & destruction: Learn more about liberation of Mosul
The Mosul operation gets completely different coverage in the western media than the Aleppo liberation did, with little reporting on civilian casualties and hardships, Carla Ortiz, a Bolivian documentary filmmaker and the director of the “The Voice of Syria” told RT. “Whatever the media was covering 24/7 was basically on every wrong move that the […]