BASHIQA/MOSUL Iraq (Reuters) - Two weeks after Sunni insurgents overran northern Iraq's biggest city Mosul, shrines lie smashed, non-Sunnis have fled and armed men have warned women not to walk in the streets unescorted.
Residents who welcomed the expulsion of the Shi'ite-led government's soldiers and police from the mostly Sunni city are now asking what life will bring under the al Qaeda offshoot calling the shots, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
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