Basra, Iraq: For almost 15 months, Basra has been home to Afaf Rahim, an Iraqi Christian in her early fifties who fled Mosul when fighters with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group captured the city and the Nineveh plains in June 2014.
“I took my three children out at noontime, and that night, the city and the surrounding area were in the hands of ISIL fighters,” Rahim recalled.
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