Iraq claimed victory over ISIS last year. Its revival is already underway
Baghdad, Iraq There is a different feel to the atmosphere in Baghdad these days, as if the chokehold that has gripped the Iraqi capital for the better part of the last decade and a half has started to ease.
On the main road cutting through the Karada district, the sidewalks are crowded with vendors hawking designer knock-offs and sticky sweets. Restaurants lining the boulevard grill masgouf, a butterflied carp considered to be Iraq's national dish, over open flames. People sit at outdoor cafés, sipping tea and smoking shisha.Two and a half years ago, ISIS plowed a truck packed with explosives into a busy shopping area down the road during Ramadan, killing hundreds of people.
Top general: 'Tens of thousands' of ISIS terrorists remain in Syria, Iraq 01:57Minutes after our military escort veers onto a dirt track outside of Mosul, the soldiers stop to check for bombs.The village of al-Thaya, barely more than a cluster of homes, is one of the most recent victims of ISIS' brutal new campaign. Three days before we arrived, six people were slaughtered there.Yousuf Hawwas, 72, was still in shock.
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