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| Iraq |
| Iraqi town freed from ISIS militants, but now isolated by war |
| 2016-04-16 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Outside the cop shoppe, Iraqi men in robes and headscarves wait for permits to leave the dusty border town of Rabia, which was wrested from ISIS 18 months ago but remains isolated and impoverished by the battle lines drawn around it. To the east is the city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , still held by ISIS krazed killers. To the west is the crossing into Syria, but that has been closed by Iraqi Kurdish authorities. The only way out is north to Iraq's largely autonomous Kurdish region, where authorities are suspicious of Rabia's mostly Arab residents and require them to apply to enter. |
| Posted by:Fred |