Madison T.
Jan 23, 2018 The article I read was from CNN. The date of publication is January 22, 2018. The name of the article was "The only ones who lost" The authors of the article are Salma Abdelaziz, Arwa Damon, and Muwafaq Mohammed, The article was about the aftermath of the nine month long battle to recapture Mosul´s Old City from ISIS. Many people were killed during the battle and the city is in ruins. Its been six months since Mosul was liberated from ISIS but the families are still suffering. In Mosul, an estimated ten thousand civilians were killed and buried in the rubble left from the nine month long battle to recapture Mosul, Iraq's Old City. A third of them were killed in coalition airstrikes. The US-led coalition fighting ISIS publicly released their own data. It acknowledges only three hundred "credible" allegations of civilian casualties due to coalition strikes. Mosul's government received roughly nine thousand requests about missing persons. Three thousand of the bodies were dug up and received by the local health department but there are still thousands of bodies rotting out in the open. In the article, there are also stories of the people who live there. Twenty three year old Mustafa Nader and his family look for the body of his great uncle with only one shovel. A five year old girl's most precious item is the doll house found in the rubble that used to be her home and loves it because she had no home of her own. Families still struggle to find the remains of their loved ones and their home. This event happened in Mosul, Iraq. The battle for Mosul ended 6 months ago. This event happened over a nine month campaign where Iraqi forces, backed with the US coalition which helped them take back Iraq´s second largest city. During the battles buildings and artifacts dating back centuries were destroyed and roads littered with the corpses of soldiers and civilians. When the Iraqi forces and US coalition won, ISIS blew up the historical Old City Mosque, al-Nuri Mosque, that stood for more than 800 years. I think that its a horrible situation for the people living there. People loose family members so easily and children live in fear of being killed. I believe that the lives of the people come first and that more work should be put into helping transport the civilians into another country of environment instead of airstrikes and weapons. https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/22/middleeast/mosul-survivors-intl/index.html I will comment on Mariana's and Sheyla's blog posts.
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Colin Vail
1/26/2018 02:18:21 pm
I like the event you chose for your blog post it is very interesting and it look like you put a lot of work and effort into it.
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Maxin Marinez
1/26/2018 04:51:32 pm
You did a great job retelling this tragic story, and I agree with your opinion that civilians should come before everything else in war. But on the flip side you have to see that war can break out at random times, and that could leave people unprepared to take the necessary measures to evacuate or protect themselves. But you still did a great job reporting and retelling this story.
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