People have drinks at a bar in the town of Qaraqosh, south of Mosul, Iraq, on July 18, 2017. (Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters)— This little Christian town in northern Iraq remains a sad, abandoned place more than nine months after the Islamic State was kicked out. A bar has reopened in the town of Qaraqosh, south of Mosul, Iraq, on July 18, 2017. In an act of deliberate vandalism, the Islamic State looted and burned most of the town’s homes, shops and churches, rendering Qaraqosh almost uninhabitable. “I think the Islamic State was drinking here,” he said.

Source: Washington Post July 29, 2017 08:03 UTC