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Been In the Wars

26/11/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Been In the Wars

Tales from the assault on Mosul, Albania's drug fields, ruined Aleppo, resurgent Abidjan

Stories from the frontlines: Iraq's special forces slow on their road to Mosul; Albania's new war on drugs; the ruins of Aleppo; and how Ivory Coast's left its crisis era behind

Owen Bennett Jones introduces analysis and reflection from reporters and writers around the world. In this edition: it's war - but perhaps not always along predictable lines. 

Richard Galpin explores the huge challenges facing Iraq's Special Forces as they try to retake the city of Mosul from so-called Islamic State - and the risks this assault might hold for communal unity in future.

Linda Pressly rides - at her own risk - with Albania's drug policemen, who now have to try and uproot a booming new trade in cannabis.

Damian Quinn returns to Aleppo, six years after his first visit, to find a ruined and divided city which the Assad government is still fighting hard to control.

Abidjan, too, was once a warzone as Ivory Coast was mired in political crises in past decades - occasionally teetering on the brink of complete anarchy. But James Copnall, the BBC's correspondent there a decade ago, went back to find a country and a city now eager to get back to business.

PHOTO: A member of the Iraqi Special Forces  behind the reinforced windshield of an armoured vehicle, bearing the bullet marks, in a district of Northeastern Mosul on November 24, 2016. (THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)

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