
Saving the orphans of Mosul
It is nine months since Iraqi forces declared victory in the long and bloody battle to retake Mosul, its second largest city, from the jihadis of so-called Islamic State.
Hundreds of thousands of people are still displaced - and almost every day the authorities find more children who have lost their parents, or been abandoned, in the chaos of war.
For one woman, Sukayna Muhammed Ali Younes, efforts to deal with the plight of these children have been frustratingly slow and so she has taken on the job of trying to return them to whatever family they have left.
Tim Whewell went to meet her.
(Image: Sukayna Muhammed Ali Younes and children, credit: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½)
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