The City Of Mosul Comes Back To Life Five Months After ISIS Defeat

MOSUL, IRAQ - NOVEMBER 04: Families walk in front of a ride at the Mosul Amusement Park on November 4, 2017 in Mosul, Iraq. The theme park was shut down under ISIS occupation and the grounds were riddled with mines and IED's, after the liberation staff returned to rebuild the park and rides and reopened on the 5th of October. Five months after Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city was liberated from ISIL in a nine-month long battle, residents have returned to the destroyed city to rebuild their lives. After more than two years of ISIL occupation, savage fighting, airstrikes and as ISIL fighters retreated they intentionally destroyed remaining key infrastructure such as bridges, government buildings, water and sewage facilities and neighborhoods laced with booby traps and homemade bombs leaving the city in ruins. Despite the damage residents have hastily returned and managed to setup temporary shops, homes and services to help bring the city back to life. In West Mosul, home to the Old City, more than 32,000 homes were destroyed and a recent report from the U.N. estimates repairing Mosul's basic infrastructure will cost more than $1 billion and take years to complete. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)