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Down to Earth: Mosul Revisited

ISIS, stunned the world last month by capturing Mosul, Iraq's second city. Yalda Hakim has returned to Northern Iraq, a region she reported from last year, to find 4 people she met

ISIS,'the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant', stunned the world last month by capturing Mosul, Iraq's second city.
For Our World, Yalda Hakim has returned to Northern Iraq, a region she reported from last year, to find 4 people she met on her last visit - all members of a local paragliding club. She discovers how the arrival of ISIS has changed their country - and their lives, and asks if the ISIS declaration of an Islamic State, or Caliphate, marks the beginning of the end of Iraq as a country.

30 minutes

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Thu 17 Jul 2014 01:30GMT

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