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Mosul battle leaving legacy of environmental damage | AFP

December 12, 2016February 24, 2017 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on December 12, 2016]

Qayyarah, Iraq // The battle to retake Mosul from ISIL is leaving a legacy of environmental damage and health risks that will pose dangers to people for years to come.

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Iraqi firefighters battle to tame IS oil well fires | AFP

November 20, 2016February 24, 2017 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on November 20, 2016]

Clad in red helmets and surgical masks, the firefighters emerged exhausted from the massive column of smoke streaming almost incessantly out of an oil well in northern Iraq.

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Informants and interrogations crucial to Mosul advance | AFP

November 19, 2016February 24, 2017 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on November 19, 2016]

Identification cards and cell phones in hand, dozens of Iraqi men and boys trudge down a dusty road in eastern Mosul towards intelligence officials waiting apprehensively outside the neighbourhood mosque.

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Mosul mechanics fight IS with wrenches | AFP

November 18, 2016February 24, 2017 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on November 18, 2016]

They are armed with wrenches instead of rifles and are rarely found on the front lines, but Mosul’s mechanics say they are indispensable to the fight against the Islamic State group.

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Foreign medics treat wounded children in Iraq’s Mosul | AFP

November 16, 2016April 19, 2018 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on November 16, 2016]

Foreign medics are helping Iraqi special forces personnel treat a growing number of children wounded by intense urban warfare inside the jihadist-held city of Mosul.

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‘Take cover!’ Tackling IS car bombs in Iraq | AFP

November 15, 2016February 24, 2017 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on November 15, 2016]

It only takes a split second for the expression on the Iraqi soldier’s face to transform from relaxed contentment to absolute terror. “Car bomb!”

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Iraqi troops listen in on IS walkie-talkies in Mosul | AFP

November 12, 2016February 24, 2017 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on November 12, 2016]

Mosul (Iraq) (AFP) – “Two grooms are coming,” a low voice crackles over the walkie-talkie, prompting a lanky Iraqi special forces soldier listening in Mosul to shout: “Boys! They’ve just dispatched two suicide bombers!”

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"The town of #Baghouz thanks you for your visit." Today, from the eastern #Syria hamlet where IS is making its last stand. The US-backed forces fighting to take Baghouz have cornered a group of diehard jihadists in a half-square-kilometre, but an unknown number of civilians - including Syrian & foreign hostages - are thought to be holed up with them. A sputtering end to IS's once-infamous "caliphate," in a town anonymous even to most Syrians until just a few weeks ago.
Escape from Al-Hol. #latergram because authorities have restricted journalists' access to displaced families here. There are more than 35,000 people - most Iraqi and Syrian but also thousands of foreigners - living in tents in this sprawling settlement in northeast #Syria. These kids were playing a very lively game of football on a cloudy afternoon - only the lucky ones had closed-toed shoes on. #Iraq #refugees #camp #joy
A 34-year-old Crimean woman tears a piece of bread to feed her eldest of three children, Sara, after their hours-long trek on foot out of Baghuz, the tiny desert town in east #Syria where IS's infamous 'caliphate' is breathing its last. I haven't found a single person actually from this once-anonymous town. Instead, we've seen French, Russian, Iraqi, Turkish men, women, and children - skeletal, on the verge of collapse, covered in soot. Many of them were born under IS to fathers who are now dead or missing & foreign mothers whose countries don't want them back. More, in the link in my bio. #onassignment
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