Displaced Iraqi women, who return to camp after trying to go home and find the conditions in their towns unbearable, with lack of services and destroyed buildings, are seen getting out from the bazar at Hassan Sham camp, east of Mosul, Iraq July 29, 2019. REUTERS/Abdullah Rashid
HASSAN SHAM CAMP, Iraq (Reuters) - Despairing of the corpses and debris littering the streets, many Iraqis have left their homes in areas liberated from Islamic State two years ago and voluntarily returned to the displacement camps that housed them during and after the fighting.
The militants seized large swathes of the country in 2014 and were finally defeated in December 2017. The northern Nineveh province, particularly its capital Mosul and its Old City district, saw some of the worst fighting.
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