Twenty years after the US invasion of Iraq, the country is trying to get back on its feet, Anadolu News Agency reports. On 20 March, 2003, an international coalition led by the US launched a milita.
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Popular Mobilization Unit (PMU) militants are seen in Zumar, Nineveh province, Iraq October 18, 2017. (Reuters) Erbil - Asharq Al-Awsat
Firas” is a journalist and civil activist from Mosul, who had returned to the city in 2017, three years after the ISIS invasion.
Back then, he didn’t know that he would be forced to leave again, this time because of threats by groups, who boasted about liberating the city.
“Firas” actively joined major reconstruction campaigns in Mosul and writes reports and stories about the sufferings of its residents due to the remnants of ISIS.
Speaking to told Asharq Al-Awsat, he said: “I was directly threatened by a group called Raba a Allah after I published a blog on Facebook criticizing the posting of pictures of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander, Qassem Soleimani, on his death anniversary.”