mosul

The destruction caused by nine months of fierce fighting comes into plain sight.
The battle has left large parts of Mosul in ruins, killed thousands of civilians and displaced nearly one million people.
The timing of the ISIS advance to Mosul could not have been worse.
"A group of losers," according to Trump, appear to have retaken the Iraqi city.
The insurgents blew up the medieval mosque and its landmark leaning minaret a week ago.
Violence in Iraq is “turning childhoods into nightmares of brutality, displacement and loss,” a grim new UNICEF report says.
The Grand al Nuri mosque, built in the 12th century, was a part of Iraq's cultural heritage.
“This will be a terrifying time for around 100,000 people still trapped in Mosul’s Old City."
We are stuck in a self-fulfilling cycle of perpetual war—when will it end?