Families Return To Mosul (Or What's Left Of It)

Euronews: No home to return to: families' plight in war-ravaged Mosul

Iraqi families displaced by months of fighting between government forces and Islamic State (ISIL) group militants are returning to Mosul to find their homes destroyed.

For three years, the city’s historic centre was the heart of ISIL’s self-proclaimed caliphate. Now, most of it lies in rubble.

The Iraq Reconstruction Fund estimates that 80 percent of Mosul’s buildings and roads have been destroyed in the nearly nine-month battle to reclaim the city.

As ISIL militants used many explosives in the residential areas of Mosul, infrastructure in these neighbourhoods has been severely damaged and losses could total around 50 billion U.S. dollars, according to the Iraqi government.

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