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Iraq faces vast challenges in securing, rebuilding Mosul

With Mosul in ruins and nearly a million displaced, Iraq now faces the enormous task of restoring order and rebuilding its second city after driving out Daesh. After eight months of gruelling fighting against Daesh, Iraqi forces are in control of Mosul. But the famed Old City has been reduced to rubble and the iconic […]

AFP reports:

With Mosul in ruins and nearly a million displaced, Iraq now faces the enormous task of restoring order and rebuilding its second city after driving out Daesh.

After eight months of gruelling fighting against Daesh, Iraqi forces are in control of Mosul.

But the famed Old City has been reduced to rubble and the iconic leaning minaret of its Al-Nuri mosque, the image of which adorns the 10,000 dinar note, lies in ruins.