In a darkened room damaged by bombardment, 15-year-old Ahmad stares in silence at his left leg, maimed by a blast that occurred earlier this year during the fierce battle to retake Mosul, Iraq's second largest city."I wanted to be a police officer in the future, to protect people. But in this condition, that no longer seems possible," Ahmad told Kyodo News at his home near the so-called Old City on the western bank of the Tigris River, the last part of Mosul to be liberated from Islamic State militants."I was walking outside, bringing water from a well for my family, when I heard the sound …READ FULL ARTICLE
