Months After Victory Declared In Mosul, Militants And Weapons Still Present

Months After Victory Declared In Mosul, Militants And Weapons Still Present

Months after the US backed Iraqi occupation authority declared "victory" in Mosul:

ISIS/ISIL/Daesh militants continue to persist in the remains of the city.
Bodies continue littering the streets (archived)
Like Raqqa, where victory was also declared, the former city to the extent it still exists is as a collection of post-modern ruins (archived).
Cleaning up the rubble requires navigating tons of ordinance that failed to detonate as intended (archived).

Whether qualify of life in the city with ISIS "removed" is higher than it was under caliphate rule remains an open question.

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