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Ben wedeman has more. ♪ >> reporter: a small flock returned for mass in the charred ruins of the church of mary of the imam cue lat near mosul. be isis set fire to the church and used its courtyard has as a firing range. this man came home to kara koch a week ago and has yet to recover. the shock. i felt pain, he recalls. my eyes filled with tears. she is back just for mass. and says this is the first time i returned to this church and then she's at a loss for words. ♪

A christian community right outside mosul, which has been you shou under siege for many, many months, was abandoned after isis took over. more than 60,000 people fled as the militants vandalized and looted and burned their homes. >> one of the town's biggest churches actually became a place for target practice. and the rest of the area is a ghost town. >> reporter: a small flock has returned for mass in the charred ruins of the church of mary the immaculate near mosul. isis set fire to the church and used its courtyard as a firing range.

That they are looking for. >> thank you so much for this interesting conversation with you both. we do appreciate it. turning now overseas and the intense military operation to retake the less isis held of mosul, so how will a trump presidency affect this operation. what is the latest there? >> reporter: it's a decisive fight against here in iraq that donald trump stands to inherit. today iraqi forces are pushing closer to the city of mosul. isis fighters dug in willing to do anything to protect their turf. these civilians near mosul inhaled toxic gas after isis set

Up and send him back to the u.k., he's faced nonstop harassment. the questions shouldn't be about jihadi john. but they should be about what role have our security services played in complete lyly alienating people in this society and country and turning them away from being able to find solutions to the problems that they had. >> the identification of jihadi john comes one day after the arrests of three brooklyn men on charges of aiding isis. m and it comes as they are on full display across iraq and syria. over the past few days isis militants in northeastern syria have launched a full-on as...