Trauma lingers in Mosul 12 years on from fall to freedom from IS

Trauma lingers in Mosul 12 years on from fall to freedom from IS

This week marks 12 years since the northern Iraqi city of Mosul fell to the terrorist group ISIS on 10 June 2014, leaving humanitarian, social, security, political and urban disasters for residents of Iraq’s second-largest city. Three years later, Mosul was "liberated" by an offensive that included the Iraqi military, the US, and the Iran-aligned Popular Mobilisation Front. But before that war, residents witnessed horrific events that spread to …