There is a lot of player in Mosul case and without finding a political way, liberating operation of Mosul is big mistake and every one can clearly see that no one upraise against ISIS (as they believed) from inside the city and two months after the operation has started there is no light at the end of the tunnel right now. Daily we can see a lot of civil and military casualty comes out from Mosul and people losing life and hope and it will continue. So, what were all the preparations and meetings during two years of Islamic State ruling and controlling the second biggest city of Iraq? As if all these agreements and conferences about Mosul were just to prey eyes to avoid the bitter truth which is that the Arab sunny society isn't happy with the "sectarian" Iraqi Army and People Mobilization Unites. Maybe, the time wasn't ripe yet. Since, those people didn't get the right international guarantees. We should remember June 9th 2014 in details very well. People of Mosul and other territories ISIS controlled were celebrating and they were explicitly expressing their joy and happiness that they got rid of "Iranian Safawy" army (means Iraqi army). Part of these frictions between Sunni and Shia'a go back to the first era of Islam while others are more recent to time of Ba'at party and Sadam Hussein regime. The two parties could never overpass their dispute but their hatred level moved into a new stage as a consequence of the sectarian policy of the former prime minister Nouri Al Maliky. So, the majority of Arab Sunni community still prefer ISIS brutality to what they call it "Iraqi sectarian army" i.e. It just belongs to shia'a sector. There is a big possibility that this operation will widen the gap already existed between shia'a and Sunni to be hard to be bridged once. Perhaps ISIS will be removed from a place or another but the roots of ISIS go deep into this community and that’s why I say it is another mistake to liberate the city before uprooting this historical Sunni- Shia'a conflict.
Younes Mohammad, born in 1968, in Dohuk, is a Kurdish photographer. He is currently based out of Erbil. He works as a freelancer on assignments for newspapers and magazines. Although he has had a life-long passion for photography he was unable to pursue it due to the war - ultimately, he spent much time in Iran as a refugee from 1974 to 1998. He graduated with an MBA from the University of Tehran. In 2011, he quit his job and started his journey as a photographer. His work has been exhibited internationally and published widely in publications and he is the recipient of multiple awards.
