Al Qayyara, south of Mosul. A black smoke rises from the oil well cements. An Iraqi Army soldier is checking the situation inside the houses still with people inside.
Al Qayyara, south of Mosul. Some children are still leaving in the area where a black smoke rises from the oil well cements. They are black in their face and clothes.
Al Qayyara, south of Mosul. Some civilians are coming back to their villages. In the footage a family who was living in Erbil since two years is returning to its home.
Al Qayyara, south of Mosul. A black smoke rises from the oil well cements. There are still people in the area who are living inside the houses. This young guy lost his hand because of a mine.
Al Qayyara, south of Mosul. A black smoke rises from the oil well cements. There are still people in the area. A white flag is put on the car by civilians that have to be controlled by the Iraqi Army in order to check if they were members of IS.
Al Qayyara, south of Mosul. Some civilians are coming back to their villages. In the footage a family who was living in Erbil since two years is returning to its home.
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Mosul, Iraq's second-most populous city, fell to an ISIL blitzkrieg in June 2014. The group's fighters poured over the border from Syria, seizing large swaths of northern Iraq. Two years later, the Iraqi army - backed by local militias, Kurdish forces and air strikes carried out by an international coalition - began an operation to drive ISIL out of the city.