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AFTERMATH

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This is Kanisa, an area of West Mosul liberated in May. As of early June 2017, signs of civilian life returning are evident. Municipal bulldozers work to clear rubble from the streets, people are painting over the bullet holes in their shop walls and opening for business and there's a busy air of hustle and bustle in some streets. Market stalls and traffic jams, mopeds and children playing, taxis everywhere.

Life goes on, though it is somewhat surreal to see it do so amid such destruction and within easy earshot and view of the frontline. Great plumes of airstrike and suicide vehicle smoke regularly cloud the city scape, sudden changes in air pressure preceding their ground trembling booms. And clusters of mortar guns crop up in vacant lots, crouched in rows like tripedal insects gazing at the white hot sun. The sounds of their outgoing rounds BOOM-shoooooom out at intervals as they bridge the gap between freedom and ISIS occupied territory.    

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ISOF Soldiers encounter three children with a handcart on a road in north west Mosul shortly after the area was liberated. Mo...
Life returns in the form of taxis, mopeds and donkey carts, to the main road bisecting Al Kanisa, a north western neighbourho...
The Syria Road, or Highway 1 wends its way through a very damaged north west Mosul. Iraq, 5th June, 2017
Looking down on an underpass blocked by airstrike damage on Highway 1. Kanisa, Mosul, Iraq, 5th June 2017
The main road through Kanisa, being cleared with bulldozers and dump trucks. Mosul, Iraq, 5th June, 2017
Prone lamposts lie flattened across the central reservation of the main road bisecting Kanisa District in West Mosul. Iraq, 4...
A common scene in West Mosul, burnt out vehicles and rubble heaps. Mosul, Iraq, 5th June 2017
Taxi Drivers and civilians are repopulating West Mosul streets still filled with abandoned vehicles. Mosul, Iraq, 5th June 2017
Families are returning to West Mosul to begin the long process of rebuilding their heavily damaged neighbourhoods. West Mosul...
A Moslawi man gets to work painting over the bullet holes left in his shop front by the ISIS conflict in a rather fetching sh...
A Moslawi man gets to work painting over the bullet holes left in his shop front by the ISIS conflict in a lovely shade of bl...
Families are reopening their shops for business in recently liberated parts of West Mosul. Iraq, 5th June 2017
Busy streets as liberated areas of West Mosul come back to life following the ISIS conflict. Mosul, Iraq, 5th June 2017
Busy streets as liberated areas of West Mosul come back to life following the ISIS conflict. Mosul, Iraq, 5th June 2017
Busy streets as liberated areas of West Mosul come back to life following the ISIS conflict. Mosul, Iraq, 5th June 2017
Busy streets as liberated areas of West Mosul come back to life following the ISIS conflict. Mosul, Iraq, 5th June 2017
Moslawi man giving the "One God" gesture from the back of a taxi in a recently liberated area of West Mosul. 5th June 2017
An Iraqi Army Soldier talks on his phone behind the blown out windows of a building in West Mosul. Iraq, 5th June 2017
Smoke rises from an explosion on the frontline in West Mosul. Iraq, 5th June 2017
Smoke rising from explosions on the frontline in West Mosul. Iraq, 5th June 2017
Mortars lined up ready for action. Mosul, Iraq, 5th June 2017
Taxi Drivers are back at work in liberated areas of West Mosul as airstrike smoke rises into the evening air on the other sid...
Federal Police walk down a damaged street near the frontline at sunset. West Mosul, Iraq, 5th June 2017
View from the top of a Minaret in a liberated area of West Mosul. Iraq, 4th June 2017
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