Iraq's Mosul healing slowly, five years after Islamic State defeat
Iraqis stand at a renovated area in Mosul's war-damaged Old City. Five years after it emerged from the Islamic State group's jihadist rule, Iraq's once thriving cultural centre of Mosul has regained a semblance of normalcy. PHOTO | ZAID AL-OBEIDI | AFP
Five years after it emerged from the Islamic State group's jihadist rule, Iraq's once thriving cultural centre of Mosul has regained a semblance of normalcy despite sluggish reconstruction efforts.