Mosul Future after Liberation ???

Freedom Seeker · Feb 18, 2017

Hello ...

I am new member in this forum. My name Omar Alkssim from the liberal side in Mosul .

After this short introduction ..
People of Mosul had changed alot after Daesh (ISIS ) or Terrorism. They become more attracted to USA because they saw the reality of being in the no where after American Forces draw from Iraq . Now we are the only lower from all elements of Iraq Arab Suni because our suni politics has no principles toward their people and no support from USA . I think in my opinion and what I see everyday people want supporter for them . We wish do that earlier but we couldn't as we are too young for that . Now the younger generations 13 to 33 years old want a supporter to be a peaceful city as we hope

What we should do fill ?
Please your advices. .

waltky · Aug 14, 2017

How about if Arab countries that didn't contribute to the war adopt `em?...

Mosul's orphans facing unknown fate
Aug. 14, 2017 -- Abdallah, Mariam and Rahma are younger than 1 year old and their identities are unknown. They were rescued from the rubble as Iraqi forces battled to wrest control of Mosul's old city from Islamic State militants. The three toddlers were given names at the orphanage where tens of children left orphaned by the 9-month-long war to end IS's control of Iraq's second-largest city are harbored.

"Scores of children have lost their parents in the intense bombardment or in booby traps and suicide bombings perpetrated by ISIS. We have given them names to facilitate sorting them out until we can establish their identity and trace their kin to hand them over," said Sukaina Mohamad Ali, the head of the Office of Women and Children in Nineveh province. Ali, who also runs the biggest orphanage in Mosul, said the organization received children found by Iraqi forces in the debris and near dead bodies. "Most of them had no ID, so we don't know who they are," she said. "They were in a very precarious state suffering from malnutrition and thirst."

Among Mosul's orphans, many are the children of foreign and local IS fighters killed in battle. "We don't know their exact number because they are dispersed in several refugee camps but there are at least 600 of them staying in Hammam al Alil camp," Ali said. "We received 20 boys who ISIS kidnapped from their families to recruit in their children's unit, the Fetiyen al Jinneh. They are aged 8-11 and we were able to identify them and reunite them with their families." Some of the children at the orphanage were Yazidis held by IS. Others were Chechen or from different Arab nationalities and were taken to Baghdad. The orphanage is expecting 1,700 additional orphans in the next stage.

Iraqi displaced children from Mosul, who were forced to flee their homes due the fighting between Iraqi forces and Islamic state group, were living at the Hamam al-Alil camp on April 7. Many children have been orphaned in the conflict

In addition, some 1,500 women married to slain IS fighters, including 10 who are pregnant, sheltered in al-Jadaa refugee camp, fearing reprisals from locals, Ali said. "The scale of social problems facing Iraq in post-ISIS areas is overwhelming. Revenge acts can be expected by families who suffered at the hands of the militants no matter how much the government tries to prevent such acts," she said. While there is no government plan to deal with the problem, attempts have been made to identify the children by posting photos on social media. "We used all possible means and we succeeded in identifying many, especially those aged between 6 and 8," Ali said.

The children are sometimes harbored in private homes by families, volunteer workers and individuals such as Iraqi soldier Mohamad Saleh. "While we were battling in the old city we discovered many children alone near the corpses of women. I took home a 3-year-old boy called Ahmad while his 1-year-old brother was transferred to a hospital in Erbil," Saleh said. "I posted Ahmad's photo on social media, which allowed his uncles to identify him. They took him away after showing me papers proving their relationship." The near total absence of psychological or psychiatric services that could treat the myriad traumas of war will make Iraq's children an even more vulnerable generation.

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waltky · Nov 27, 2017

Orphans From Mosul Are 'Living In Another World...

Traumatized And Vulnerable To Abuse, Orphans From Mosul Are 'Living In Another World'
November 25, 2017 • Thousands of Iraqi children lost one or both parents during fighting in Mosul. "They are sad and isolated. Most of the time, they have few friends and they don't trust anyone," says a social worker.

Ammar is standing near a crowded bridge in Mosul, shivering in the sunlight. He's a thin 16-year-old with haunted eyes. But he's not worried about himself. He says he has come to try to find help for his sister. She's nine, and the ISIS attack that killed their parents as they tried to flee Mosul in June left her paralyzed. "We were walking and they were firing from a building," Ammar says. ISIS wanted to stop the civilians they used as human shields from leaving. There was a wall a few hundred yards away. "They were shooting at us," Ammar says. "If you could run to it, you could escape."

Kawkab walks with a social worker in the Dabaga camp for displaced Iraqis. Kawkab says she was seven or eight when she saw ISIS militants shoot her mother dead. "They shot her with an assault rifle," she says. "They shot her and she died and they threw her off the bridge. I asked them, 'Why did you kill her? She's my mother. She didn't do anything.'"

Ammar made it to the wall through the gunfire. His parents and his little sister didn't. "I helped to bury my father and mother and then we left the west side of the city," he says. Iraqi soldiers evacuated Ammar and his sister to the Kurdish capital Irbil, where doctors operated on the little girl. Ammar says she remained paralyzed. Amid a flood of civilian and military casualties, there was no follow-up care. There are no reliable statistics showing exactly how many civilians were killed in the battle for Mosul. But there are partial records showing that thousands of orphans were left behind.

The Dabaga camp is home to Iraqis displaced by the war against ISIS. Aid workers are worried about the effects on children, including thousands who have lost parents in the battle.

ISIS is believed to have shot hundreds of people who were trying to escape as Iraqi security forces closed in during the final battle this summer. More than 2,000 additional civilians were believed killed in U.S. and Iraqi airstrikes and mortar attacks on ISIS targets in the crowded west side. While many of the orphaned children have been absorbed into the families of relatives who care for them, some are left to fend for themselves. In Iraq's tribal culture, it's considered shameful to send children to orphanages. Many of them end with relatives who only reluctantly take them in.

10-year-old Kawkab saw her mother shot dead in front of her by ISIS. "When my mother was alive, I was happy," says Kawkab. "Here I mostly stay home in the tent."

In Iraq, one step above being homeless is living in an unfinished building – often the foundations of a house with concrete block outer walls, a concrete floor and a ceiling. That's where Ammar and his sister live now with their uncles, who were also displaced from the west side of the city. "They're not good. They don't feed us," Ammar says. "If I can find something to eat, we eat. If I don't, we don't." He says sometimes he gets food from Iraqi soldiers in the streets. His older cousins ignore his sister, he says, but routinely beat him up. He pulls up his faded shirt to show welts on his side. Ammar provides his last name but asks that it not be used. He's afraid of his uncles and won't give his address.

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