December 9 marks the six-month anniversary of ISIL's capture of Mosul. The capture both put ISIL on the map and simultaneously threatened to fundamentally redraw it. Coverage of the low level civil war in Iraq had long disappeared off the front pages with a war weary western public happy to be "out" of a complex conflict that seemed to have no end. The boldness of ISIL's sweep through the region and the taking of Mosul was the trigger that sparked a new focus on Iraq and put US warplanes back in the sky, but the city itself was quickly forgotten.
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