By Samuel Gressitt 'The only ones who lost'
CNN Updated 6:50 PM ET, Mon January 22, 2018 By Salma Abdelaziz, Arwa Damon and Muwafaq Mohammed, CNN This article is about the people of the city in Iraq, Mosul which is where ISIS battled the Iraqi forces funded my the US. The article depicts what is left of the city and tries to give an understanding of what the people are coming back to. It shows what these people are coming back for and what this means for their future. The city Mosul was taken over by ISIS also known as the “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria”. They took the city over to defend against Iraqi forces heavily supported by the us. This made this place a war zone and one of the last places this group was prominent. The battle between ISIS and Iraqi forces destroyed Mosul and killed whoever was in it including the innocent people that stayed in the city. Airstrikes and bulldozing buried people and left them for their families to try and find. After the defeat an estimated 9,000 people were reported missing. From August to December of 2017 3,000 bodies were brought to the local health department. Even 6 months after the defeat people are still coming back to find the remains of their family members. ISIS took mosul around the 10th of April 2014. The battle began on the 1rst of November 2016. On July 9th victory over the ISIS group was announced. This event occurred when the Iraqi army starting pushing ISIL out of cities that they had taken over by which led them to Mosul as one of their last resorts. The Iraqi army had 30,000 soldiers facing 1,500 but after 6 days the airport fell under the ISIL’s control. This lead to an estimated 500,000 civilians fleeing from the city. This event affected a lot of innocent people in a lot of different ways. Some people were left with piles of concrete that used to be their homes. Some people had to leave within a days notice and lost family and everything they owned. I think that this event has had a detrimental effect on a lot of people. Link to the original article: https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/22/middleeast/mosul-survivors-intl/index.html Ill be commenting on Dylan Lewis and Olivia Trussell's blogs.
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