Mosul residents: ‘We were the masters of the world’ |

Mosul, Iraq – Amid the rubble and devastation of the old city in west Mosul, it was difficult to imagine that Bulgaria would be the one thing local people would want to talk about the most. In the deserted Nineweh Street in al-Sa’aa (clock) neighbourhood, I met Adel Hassan, who had recently returned to his damaged home after having run out of money to pay rent for an apartment in the relatively