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After Islamic State defeat, a daunting search for bodies in Mosul’s rubble

The streets of Mosul’s Old City are littered with bodies, tangled between shattered stones and remnants of the lives they left behind. In the baking summer heat, exhausted rescue crews are now sifting through the debris of the toughest battle against the Islamic State in what became its final redoubt in the city.

Louisa Loveluck writes for The Washington Post:

The streets of Mosul’s Old City are littered with bodies, tangled between shattered stones and remnants of the lives they left behind.

In the baking summer heat, exhausted rescue crews are now sifting through the debris of the toughest battle against the Islamic State in what became its final redoubt in the city.