قرى العراق المهجورة: تنظيم داعش أبعد الناس عنها، والآن عدو جديد يمنع عودتهم

Nearly a decade after fighting ended in northern Iraq, the climate crisis has brought extreme heat and a water shortage, making life almost impossible The first thing that strikes visitors arriving in Faka, a small village in al-Ayadiya district, northern Iraq, is the silence. No children play in the streets. No shops are open. Roofless houses stretch across the hillside, their walls pockmarked by shellfire, while weeds and wild grasses grow through collapsed living rooms. A decade after Islamic State (IS) swept across the region, war remains visible everywhere.