Mosul far from rehabilitation after ravages of IS group

MOSUL, Iraq - One year after the Iraqi forces liberated the city of Mosul from the Islamic State extremists, tens of thousands of displaced residents are still living in tents, suffering in the scorching summer with temperatures of over 50 C.

Abul Jabbar Mohammed, 62, a displaced man from the town of Tal Afar, about 70 kilometers west of Mosul, is squeezing his 23 family members into a 16-square-meter tent at Hassan Sham refugee camp, around 40 km east of Mosul.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees opened Hassan Sham refugee camp late in 2016 for people who were forced out of their homes in and around Mosul by the war against IS militants.