VOA's Kawa Omer was in Mosul this week, shortly after the Iraqi city was liberated from the Islamic State. He shared these photos of residents trying to rebuild their lives and the city in the aftermath of terror group's three-year occupation.
Images from Mosul after Islamic State
- By Kawa Omer
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Students are seen at Belqis Elementary School (right side of Mosul), July 18, 2017.
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The flag-draped casket of civil rights pioneer Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., is placed by a U.S. military honor guard at the center of the U.S. Capitol Rotunda to lie in state in Washington, D.C., July 27, 2020.
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The casket of Rep. John Lewis, a pioneer of the civil rights movement and long-time member of the U.S. House of Representatives, moves over the Edmund Pettus Bridge by horse drawn carriage during a memorial service in Selma, Alabama.
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Students are waving Iraqi flags at Belqis Elementary School (right side of Mosul); the school is riddled with bullets, July 18, 2017.