b_179_129_16777215_00_images_131108ROMaa001.jpegDIYALA, Iraq — After pleading with Iraqi soldiers to let him pass through a checkpoint and proceed to his neighborhood in eastern Mosul, Ahmed Al Ta’ee finally reached home.

No one was expecting him, not even his wife. When he called out to her and his two daughters, they were too afraid to answer. He found them huddled in a back room.

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