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Bittersweet Christmas for Iraqi Christians near Mosul
10 years agoUS Soldiers attend a Christmas Eve service for Iraqi Christians at the Saint John's church (Mar Yohanna church) in the town of Qaraqosh (also known as Hamdaniya), 30 kms east of Mosul, on December 25, 2016. SAFIN HAMED / AFP
Iraqi Christians celebrated a bittersweet Christmas in a town near Mosul from which they had fled over two years before, in a church still marred by damaged crosses and jihadist graffiti.