THE
P RTAL
August 2016
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Aid to the Church in Need
Iraq: Daesh (ISIS) left,
destruction remains
Mark von Riedemann and Clare Creegan of ACN report
It is
the silence that you notice first. Not just a lack of noise but an absence of sound. Even the birds
have left. I am in Telskuf, Iraq, about 20 miles (32 km) north of the Daesh (ISIS) stronghold of Mosul and
just over a mile (2 km) from the front line. The town is abandoned; its inhabitants, including approximately
12,000 Christian