Iraqi Refugees Visit Homes They Fled Amid IS Onslaught

"Of course we are afraid there are bombs planted in our homes," said Badirkhan Moussa, who fled his home on foot two years ago when Islamic State militants stormed his village. "But we won't be happy again until we go home, and go inside." In a dirt parking lot between a fallen bridge blown up by IS a year ago and a peshmerga military checkpoint, Moussa and his neighbors waited for two hours to get permission to travel into the war zone surrounding Mosul to visit...

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