“Shocking” Before And After Satellite Photos From Mosul

It used to be Iraq’s second largest and most vibrant city; now Mosul – which was recently recaptured from the Islamic State – lies under a pile of rubble.
As Foreign Policy magazine writes, “raging for nine months, the street-by-street fight to retake Mosul from the Islamic State outlasted the Battle of Verdun – the longest and largest conflict of World War I. As Iraqi forces won back the city this week, death, destruction, and dust are all that’s left in Iraq’s second-largest metropolis. Satellite images provided to Foreign Policy by DigitalGlobe vividly illustrate this shocking transformation.”
Here is the “before and after”:
Overview of Mosul’s Old City and east Mosul in November 2015, left, and July 2017, right

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Jul 16, 2017.