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This is life inside Mosul’s Old City

At the age of just four, Satabraq finds soldiers and rockets more normal than classrooms and schoolmates. Satabraq meanders the alleyways in the Old City of Mosul, a place that is both her home and a frontline. Dressed in red floral pajamas, she is led by Iraqi troops who laugh and play with her between […]

Salma Abdelaziz, Scott McWhinnie and Nick Paton Walsh write for CNN:

At the age of just four, Satabraq finds soldiers and rockets more normal than classrooms and schoolmates.

Satabraq meanders the alleyways in the Old City of Mosul, a place that is both her home and a frontline. Dressed in red floral pajamas, she is led by Iraqi troops who laugh and play with her between firing mortar rounds.

"The first environment she has ever been exposed to is the police. She loves them more than she would students in a school," Abdullah, her father, said. "She plays with them and they bring her sweets."