The Missing Sons of the War on ISIS

Expand Members of the Iraqi National Security Service arrest a young man they suspect of being affiliated with ISIS in eastern Mosul on March 15, 2017. © 2017 Sam Tarling In January 2017, in an Erbil café, I met a woman called Nahla*, a breast cancer survivor who was stuck living under ISIS through much of its time controlling Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city. Her husband had died years before after an illness, and her son had been missing since May 2015. She had come to the Iraqi Kurdistan capital to try to find out where he was, with bags full of documents, and an energy that knew no bounds.…

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