24-11-2016 10:11 via news.yahoo.com

Iraqi Christians revisit ghost town abandoned by Islamic State

By Ulf Laessing BARTELLA, Iraq (Reuters) - A damaged picture of Jesus and a CD from his daughter's wedding were pretty much all Iraqi Christian Said Shaba found when he returned to the ransacked house he had to flee when Islamic State arrived two and a half years ago. The militants stole a safe with his savings and set the two-storey house ablaze before Iraqi forces pushed them out a month ago from the northern town of Bartella as part of a campaign to retake nearby Mosul, the group's last stron
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