UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie visits Mosul, less than a year after the city’s liberation. She arrives in the city on the second day of the Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday marking the end of Ramadan.
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It’s been more than six months now since the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi formally declared victory over IS in Iraq’s second city of Mosul (10th of July) – where they once announced their so called Caliphate.
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