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    Post Last Stand: ISIS Blows Up 12th Century Mosque in Mosul as Iraqi Forces Close in

    The Islamic State blew up the Mosul landmark where they declared the formation of their caliphate nearly three years ago, prompting the Iraq government to declare victory over the terror group.
    The Great Mosque of al-Nuri, with its distinctive leaning minaret called the Hadba, dated back to the 12th Century. On June 10, 2014, ISIS seized Mosul. On July 4, 2014, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi broke into Friday prayers at the mosque to deliver his announcement of the new caliphate. Twenty days after that, ISIS blew up Jonah's Tomb; after east Mosul was liberated in January, archaeologists discovered a palace under the shrine dating back to 600 B.C. The terror group threatened to destroy the minaret but never followed through until now.Iraq Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said ISIS' move signals "an official announcement of their defeat."

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7801846.html


    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politic...rces-close-in/
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    Yeah but like Peter has said before, they will just scurry off elsewhere. Destroying cultural landmarks seems to be a thing of theirs
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    It will still take a while to root the fighters out of the Old City. They are surrounded and surrender or death is their only option.
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    Cool

    How about if Arab countries that didn't contribute to the war adopt `em?...

    Mosul's orphans facing unknown fate
    Aug. 14, 2017 -- Abdallah, Mariam and Rahma are younger than 1 year old and their identities are unknown. They were rescued from the rubble as Iraqi forces battled to wrest control of Mosul's old city from Islamic State militants. The three toddlers were given names at the orphanage where tens of children left orphaned by the 9-month-long war to end IS's con*trol of Iraq's second-largest city are harbored.
    "Scores of children have lost their parents in the intense bombard*ment or in booby traps and suicide bombings perpetrated by ISIS. We have given them names to facilitate sorting them out until we can estab*lish their identity and trace their kin to hand them over," said Sukaina Mohamad Ali, the head of the Office of Women and Children in Nineveh province. Ali, who also runs the biggest or*phanage in Mosul, said the organi*zation received children found by Iraqi forces in the debris and near dead bodies. "Most of them had no ID, so we don't know who they are," she said. "They were in a very pre*carious state suffering from malnu*trition and thirst."

    Among Mosul's orphans, many are the children of foreign and lo*cal IS fighters killed in battle. "We don't know their exact number be*cause they are dispersed in several refugee camps but there are at least 600 of them staying in Hammam al Alil camp," Ali said. "We received 20 boys who ISIS kidnapped from their families to recruit in their children's unit, the Fetiyen al Jinneh. They are aged 8-11 and we were able to iden*tify them and reunite them with their families." Some of the children at the or*phanage were Yazidis held by IS. Others were Chechen or from dif*ferent Arab nationalities and were taken to Baghdad. The orphanage is expecting 1,700 additional orphans in the next stage.


    Iraqi displaced children from Mosul, who were forced to flee their homes due the fighting between Iraqi forces and Islamic state group, were living at the Hamam al-Alil camp on April 7. Many children have been orphaned in the conflict

    In addition, some 1,500 women married to slain IS fighters, in*cluding 10 who are pregnant, shel*tered in al-Jadaa refugee camp, fear*ing reprisals from locals, Ali said. "The scale of social problems fac*ing Iraq in post-ISIS areas is over*whelming. Revenge acts can be ex*pected by families who suffered at the hands of the militants no matter how much the government tries to prevent such acts," she said. While there is no government plan to deal with the problem, at*tempts have been made to identify the children by posting photos on social media. "We used all possible means and we succeeded in iden*tifying many, especially those aged between 6 and 8," Ali said.

    The children are sometimes har*bored in private homes by fami*lies, volunteer workers and individ*uals such as Iraqi soldier Mohamad Saleh. "While we were battling in the old city we discovered many children alone near the corpses of women. I took home a 3-year-old boy called Ahmad while his 1-year-old brother was transferred to a hospital in Er*bil," Saleh said. "I posted Ahmad's photo on so*cial media, which allowed his un*cles to identify him. They took him away after showing me papers prov*ing their relationship." The near total absence of psy*chological or psychiatric services that could treat the myriad traumas of war will make Iraq's children an even more vulnerable generation.

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