"When I arrived here in 2019 it looked like a ghost city," Acetoso said. "In five years plus, there has been a massive change." In Mosul on Wednesday, UNESCO chief Audrey Azoulay hailed her team's ...

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and "Mosul" (2019). He looks at fighting in buildings and close-quarters combat in "Extraction" (2020), starring Chris Hemsworth; "American Sniper" (2014), starring Bradley Cooper; and "The Raid ...