East Mosul was liberated from ISIS in December, and the battle to liberate West Mosul has just begun, by Iraqi forces backed by U.S. airpower. Efforts to stabilize Mosul afterward will need to include a plan to rebuild education in addition to restoring the city’s damaged infrastructure. Students need to make up years of missed K-12 and university education, and ISIS indoctrination needs to be undone. A Mosul University engineering student who fled in 2014 told me she would never go back. After East Mosul was retaken last month, 30 schools reopened and another 40 were being checked for safety.

Source: Fox News March 26, 2017 00:31 UTC