A Pilot Market Assessment of Mosul - IOM Iraq

From October 2016 until July 2017, a joint offensive with Iraqi Security Forces to reclaim the City of Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) precipitated large scale migration and displacement outside of the city. Operations to regain control of harder-to-access and denser areas led to widespread and severe damage to the physical infrastructure of parts of the city, especially west Mosul. Even prior to the offensive, three years of ISIL governance in Mosul had led to the full or partial closure of a number of small-scale industries as ISIL forces enforced systems of taxation, limited transportation routes and their accessibility for traders, and in some instances, confiscated local production and materials.