A member of a demining team searches for landmines in Khazer, Iraq December 1, 2016. Picture taken December 1, 2016. REUTERS/Khalid al Mousily
BASHIQA, Iraq (Reuters) - Khedr Selim trod gingerly through the rubble of his old home, desperate to move back in with his family after two years on the run, but terrified in case Islamic State fighters, driven out at last, had wired the house to explode.
Just days earlier two former residents of his hometown Bashiqa visited their house for the first time since fleeing two years ago. They were killed by a bomb rigged to the front door.
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