6m
28 Mar 2019

Life after ISIS in the devastated city of Mosul

Chief Correspondent

The ISIS caliphate may have been blasted from the map across Iraq and Syria – but its legacy remains.

A global coalition ousted the Islamist militia from Mosul in northern Iraq but at great cost.

When our Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson visited the old city he found an empty, devastated place where some even yearn for the return of ISIS.