ISIS’ retreat to Mosul brings surrounding villages back to life, reveals extensive tunnel system
As the noose tightens around the ISIS stronghold of Mosul, there is a flurry of activity in the city’s surrounding villages, where the black-clad jihadist army’s retreat has revealed destruction, booby traps and underground warrens where terrorists cowered under coalition airstrikes. FoxNews.com recently toured the various frontline villages of Mosul, where around 30 families of […]Hollie McKay writes for Fox News:
As the noose tightens around the ISIS stronghold of Mosul, there is a flurry of activity in the city’s surrounding villages, where the black-clad jihadist army’s retreat has revealed destruction, booby traps and underground warrens where terrorists cowered under coalition airstrikes.
FoxNews.com recently toured the various frontline villages of Mosul, where around 30 families of the minority Shabak and Kakayi people have returned four months after their homes were liberated from ISIS. Like other villages on the Nineveh Plains just miles from the city’s center, the longtime inhabitants are trickling back in to rebuild their homelands – and lives. Even though that means their families – including their young children – are living on the frontlines amid one of the most highly-anticipated battles to recapture a city from jihadist hands.
