ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani inaugurated Mosul International Airport on Wednesday, ...

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It took three more years to liberate Mosul. Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed wrote for CNN that when she heard of the fall of Mosul, “my strength collapsed like the collapse of the Prophet Yunus Mosque.

Mosul, Iraq’s largest Sunni population-hub, is well outside of Iraq’s Shia heartland. The Sunni makeup of the city disincentivized the predominantly Shia army to mount resistance.