For Umm Mohammed and other residents of areas of war-battered west Mosul recaptured from Islamic State group jihadists, this year’s Muslim holy month of Ramadan carries a bitter taste. “Our homes and cars have been destroyed, our family separated,” said the former bank manager in Iraq’s second largest city. “Why should we have to wait … Read more
For Umm Mohammed and other residents of areas of war-battered west Mosul recaptured from Islamic State group jihadists, this year’s Muslim holy month of Ramadan carries a bitter taste. “Our homes and cars have been destroyed, our family separated,” said the former bank manager in Iraq’s second largest city. “Why should we have to wait … Read more
A mass food poisoning at a camp for displaced Iraqi civilians outside Mosul has left at least two dead and hundreds requiring urgent treatment, officials said Tuesday. “There are 752 cases of food poisoning and two deaths, a woman and a child” following a meal on Monday night, health ministry spokesman Seif al-Badr told AFP. … Read more