In Mosul areas retaken from Islamic State, loss and fear linger


Abu Wissam, whose wife and son were killed by Islamic State, cries as he holds up the militants' execution order for his son, east of Mosul, Iraq, January 11, 2017. Pictures January 11, 2017. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi soldiers kicked in the gate of a home in eastern Mosul and emerged moments later with two young men whose hands they bound with plastic ties and dragged off towards black Humvees.

The men, at least one suspected of belonging to Islamic State, denied ties to the militants who had been pushed out of the neighbourhood a few days earlier. They were pale with fear as they knelt on the ground.

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