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The 0 〃 e. where 砒 least 16 civilians were killed ⅲ the Dawa 覊れ eig 0 市 00d 可 Mos photographed 0 れ March 30 lraqi government troops and Shi'ite, side includes some Of the poorer neigh- Sunni and Kurdish militia fighters, borhoods of MosuI, a once prosperous backed by more than 5 , 000 American and diverse city that before the arrival of troops and crucial air support from the ISIS had been home to Sunni, Shi'ite and U. S. , France, Britain and Australia. The Christian Arabs as well as Kurds. Here the battle is the largest in lraq since the fighting is denser and deadlier than ⅲ the U. S. -led invasion of 2003 , and brutal fragile lraqi republic have recaptured the east. ln the packed neighborhoods on the proof Of the maxim that war is the con- entire eastern section ofthe city up tO the edges Of Mosul's centuries-old core, S01- tinuation Of politics by Other means. Tigris River and are now b e s ieging the diers trade fire with the ISIS gunmen At great cost, the forces backing the militants on the western bank. The west among the houses. lraqi infantry are 21

ing through some ofthe left-behind ISIS documents in the abandoned vehicles offce. "lf you want to build a state, you have to build something, and they took everything. Today ISIS controls only 7 % of lraqi territory, down from 40 % at its peak, according t0 the lraqi military. Although it still controls Raqqa, the group's claims tO a caliphate—a territory tO hOld out as beacon to all the world's Sunni Muslims— will be in tatters once Mosul is freed. But ISIS will remain a potent movement, albeit in a different form. Already it is stepping up efforts t0 maintain its global profile with attacks far from the theater Of conflict. ln recent weeks , the group has claimed terrorist strikes in St. Petersburg, London, Stockh01m and Egypt, where dozens 0fCoptic Christians were killed as they celebrated Palm Sunday. Over time, ISIS will look less like a state and more like a terrorist group in the mold Of its forebear al-Qaeda, generating headlines not by seizing territory but through spectacular acts ofkilling. "Even as they lose territory, I think it's likely that they'll maintain relevance, by shifting strategy toward asymmetric lnsurgency, says Noah Bonsey, a semor analyst for the Brussels-based lnterna- tional Crisis Group. That goes not only for targets ⅲ the West, he adds, but also for the battlefields oflraq and Syriawhere the group made its name. "lt's not as if they're going t0 be unable t0 operate ⅲ what will still be quite weakly governed, ifgoverned at all, territory. ln Mosul, the chaos they leave behind is visible on every corner. ln the Aqeedat neighborhood, TIME was led to a heap of dead bodies sprawled ⅲ an alleyway. Women, children, two 01d men with white beards, they are 16 ⅲ all, their faces bloated with blood now, at least a week after they were killed. One lraqi federal police offcer said he witnessed the family die after triggering a booby trap. Another was certain they had been shot dead. ln its morbid details, the debate took in both the physical horrors and the mentality abroad in a country now 14 years at war. our experience, ifit's a mine, you'll see body parts everywhere. But as you can see, there are bullets every- where; ” the offcer says. "ISIS wanted t0 make an example ofthem, for others wh0 try to flee. ' 24 TIME April 24 , 2017

葎第当を Mosque Of ・ Nu ル as the U. S. deals with the consequences sents a tangle Of new issues—especially tion Of ISIS rule, whose liberation pre- question is Raqqa in Syria, the last bas- ministration will need tO tackle this The next city where the Trump Ad- on another day. ” fight this exact same fight in another city crease the likelihood that you're going t0 Center for Civilians in Conflict. "You in- U. S. Army judge advocate now with the says Lieut. C010nel Jay Morse, a retired going t0 be able t0 shape the message; ” U.. S. soldiers recover pu ーれ drone after surveillance m な SiO れ over western Mosul 0 れ ApriI 6 ofits strike 0 Ⅱ a Syrian airfield on ApriI 6. U.S. -backed Syrian militias are poised on the edge ofthe city, but it remains unclear when and how they plan to take the city. The Trump Administration is also put- ting more U. S. troops on the ground in the Raqqa campaign, opening the door t0 a prolonged deployment in Syria. Mosul リれⅳ e 「 si Nineveh ruins MosuI airport ■ CONTROL IRAQI CONTROL RECENT IRAQI GAINS MosuI ・ train station M ilitary base MOSUL LI M ITS SOURCE: IHS Conflict Monitor IRAQ DETAIL 0 F AREA をふ第 23 57 , a truck driver in Dawasa, after pick- state. lt was a gang, ' says Jasem Ahmed for the lraqi offensive. "This wasn't a across the border t0 Syria as they braced Other valuables, carting their assets tenure, the jihadists seized cars and ity. Toward the end 0f their 33-month the ISIS period as a time of petty brutal- though, most Mosul residents remember For itS pretensions Of governance, lslamic State—issued license plates. among the bombed-out buildings, lie version of the DMV. Scattered outside, intO an OffIce for registering cars—ISIS's had taken over a restaurant, converting it scale Dawasa neighborhood, the militants erated areas Of the city. ln the once up- T0day remnants of its rule litter the lib- an experiment in jihadist governance. UNDER ISIS, MOSUL was a laboratory for tion still finding its feet on foreign policy. blazer, was a snapshot Of an Administra- ting with offcers in a flakjacket over his dent's son-in-law, the sight ofwhom, chat- House adviser Jared Kushner, the Presi- April 3 visit t0 Baghdad by senior White falls. The issue surely came up during the U. S. future presence in lraq after Mosul Then there's the thorny question ofthe

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TENDENCY tO apologize was the re- sult 0f an unexpected symptom of her grief: Sandberg completely lost her self- confidence. "lt just kind of crumbled in every area; ” she says. "I didn't think I could be a good friend. I didn't feel like I could do my job. ” She wasn't even sure she could look after her grieving kids. This surprised Sandberg as much as anyone: "lt reminded me of how one day in my neighborhood I watched a house that had taken years tO build get torn down in a matter ofminutes; ” she writes in 0 を t れ B. "Boom. Flattened. ” On her first day back at work, she says, she fell asleep in a meeting, rambled and misidentified a colleague, then le 仕 at 2 p ・ m ・ t0 pick up her kids from school. That evening she called Zuckerberg to see if she should even be there. "Mark said, 'Take the time offyou need,' ” says Sand- berg. "And that's what I would have said tO someone in the same situation. But then he said, 'Actually l'm really glad you were here today. You made two really good points—here's what they were. ' ” That small vote of confidence led to one of the biggest changes Sandberg made in her management style: She no longer automatically diverts work from people facing personal adversity. NOW she asks if they want tO dO it because, counterintuitively, relieving people Of some Of their responsibilities could mean denying them a way of finding their bearings. When Cafyn Marooney was diagnosed with breast cancer shortly after she was asked to head up global communications at Facebook, Sandberg encouraged her tO take the promotion. "Sheryl had been a vulnerable leader that I had gotten to see close up; ” says Marooney. She t00k the job, and ⅲ one Of her first meetings with her team members she let them know she was undergoing treatment. "lt helped people share things with me in a way that helped me understand how to do the job better and faster,: ” Marooney says. Silicon Valley wasn't all so gentle and touchy-feely. Another friend, venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya, told Sandberg tO remember her ambition and 'get back on the motherf-cking path. ” He also gave her a chain tO wear Goldberg's wedding band around her neck. (Zuckerberg had also given her a 35 FAMILY ALBUM 'DAVE WAS A ROCK. DAVE WAS MYROCK. ' GoIdberg was smitten with people, as a couple. They really Sandberg from the first movie navigated life. ” GoIdberg advised they saw together—Courage Sandberg to join Facebook, and Under Fire—but it t00k Sandberg he warned her that the first draft SiX years tO come around. Their Of も ea れ加 was "like eating your llth wedding anniversary was a Wheaties ” and needed more few weeks before he died, and personal details. He was widely Sandberg regrets spending it recognized as the Silicon Valley apart. "Dave was one Of the most sage 1 れ OSt generous With hiS time. humble, grounded, confident "I realize how biased I am, but I people l've ever met; ” says his think the world lost something friend Phil Deutch (pictured ⅲ incredibly special when they lost group photo, bottom right). "They Dave; ” says Sandberg. "I meet were fun and great tO be around, people on a weekly basis wh0 tell and interested and curious, as me, 'Dave changed my life. ” ( 9 ) 9U380NVS コ A 3 工のの 3 トコ 00

ー H E G 0 N M E N CA M E ー N ー H E A FT E R N 0 0 2. Wearing the drab and baggy uniform of the lslamic State, they arrived at the door of Bashar Abu Ali's home ⅲ west- ern Mosul tO commandeer it as a sniper's nest. There were seven or eight Of the militants, all lraqis. They used an up- stairs bedroom tO shOOt intO the broad road outside. ln those days in late February and early March, the lslamic State was fall- ing back quickly. The lraqi military swept into the city, backed by ferocious Ameri- can airstrike s and artillery. The militants had already lost the eastern halfofthe city and were now scrambling tO mount a de- fense ofthe west side. That meant seizing some vehicles tO make car bombs, setting fire tO others tO create smoke screens and taking over hundreds Of civilian houses like Abu Ali's, militarizing both the urban and the suburban landscapes ofthe city. Then the battle began. For 11 days, the 43-year-01d coffee-shop manager cow- ered with his family in terror in down- stairs rooms while the ISIS fighters held the high ground, taking shifts shooting at the top Of the stairs. American and lraqi warplanes rained bombs around them. "I was 90 tO 95 % sure we were going tO die there,: ” said Abu Ali. There was no thought 0f leaving. Better tO die in your own home, he thought. When the lraqi military and police arrived ⅲ their neighborhood, the gunmen fled in a panic. What they left was a landsc 叩 e ofbombed-out buildings and twisted metal, the burnt skeletons Ofcars and trucks flung aside by massive explosions. There iS no electricity, no running water and few shops selling food. A defused car bomb in a narrow street 100kS like a battle wagon from Mad Max, AFTER SIX MONTHS Of fighting, the end onstrated less the military might 0f the steel plates where the windshield and insurgents than the hollowness 0f lraq's is ⅲ sight in the battle for Mosul—a vic- sovereignty under a government ruled hood should be. "DO you want to see the tory that, when it comes, will mark a on sectarian lines: many SunniS in lraq's body?" a resident asks, and leads the way turning point in the broader war against north and west preferred sunni militants tO the corpse Of a "Russian"—shorthand the lslamic State. lraq's second city has used for foreign fighters from former embodied the group's claim that it was over a Baghdad government responsive Soviet nations, wh0 spoke Arabic poorly. in fact building a state—and a warning only t0 lraq's Shi'ite majority. But ISIS has now been ousted from Killed at least two weeks earlier, his burnt that lraq might not be one much longer ・ more than half the city by a massive body still lies in the street, one charred When the city of 2 million fell to ISIS ⅲ June 2014 , it t00k only hours and dem- force marshaled against it: 100 , 000 arm protruding from under a blanket. 20 TIME April 24 , 2017

ま二単一 一口をリ心ー 豪物 , ミをよを。第 now within reach Of an icon Of the lslamic State's collapsing empire, the Mosque 0f al-Nuri. lt was here inJuly 2014 that ISIS leader Abu Bakr aI-Baghdadi ascended to the pulpit t0 herald the establishment 0f a new caliphate, stretching at that time from the Turkey-Syria border to the out- skirts of Baghdad. Victory is no longer a real possibility for ISIS in Mosul. The estimated 2 , 000 militants in the besieged area know that there is no escape and that, unlike the men upstairs at Abu Ali's, they are fighting t0 the death. Their weapons may remain as crude as their propaganda—car bombs, booby traps and hundreds of human shields—but the feeling is different as the end draws near. "There's a change in desperation; ” says U. S. Army Lieut. COIO- nelJames Browning, wh0 advises the 9th division of the lraqi army in the Mosul campaign. He said the lraqi soldiers on the ground have come tO consider each ISIS fighter a potential suicide attacker. "They know they have an enemy that is still will- ing tO die for their cause, and maybe even more SO now than they were before. ” lraqi troops on the front lines be- lieve the gunmen arrayed against them are some Of the group's most combat- 22 TIME ApriI 24 , 2017 and it's the biggest threat tO noncom- They dO use airpower, however, use our artillery. We can't use mortars. there are a 10t Of people inside. We can't in the area. "Every time we advance, sergeant in the federal police stationed we're facing; ” says Jafar Jawad Qadem, a medicine. "[They're the] main obstacle dling supplies of food, fuel, water and controlled section of Mosul, with dwin- many as halfa million remain in the ISIS- the cross fire iS now greater than ever. AS The thre at to civilians caught up in person t00k the time, lined up the sh0t. ” pital ⅲ west Mosul onApril 1. "lt's like the lraqi special-operations-forces field hos- Reith, an American volunteer me diC at an but impressive head shOts; ” says Jonathan them had, I mean, I hate saying the word, three [soldiers] came to us dead, and all of they include seasoned snipers. "Last night tO lraqi soldiers and medics in the area, Arabia or Belgium or Tunisia. According with no expectation ofgoingback t0 Saudi hardened, many of them foreign fighters 可 Mos 0 れ March 31 area i れ the southwest section Civilians return tO liberated batants. Reported civilian casualties from the U. S. -led air war soared to an all-time high in March, with more than 1 , 700 people allegedly killed ⅲ lraq and Syria. An airstrike ⅲ the New Mosul neighborhood reportedly killed more than 200 civilians on March 17 , causing worldwide consternation. As the Penta- gon investigates, coalition commander Lieut. General Stephen Townsend said on March 28 that there was a "fair chance ” the U. S. was responsible. President Donald Trump took offlce just a fewweeks before the western Mosul offensive began, after a campaign in which he promised to "bomb the sh-t ” out of ISIS. The U. S. military denies that the rules of engagement have changed since he took offlce, blaming the brutal tactics ofISIS, including human shields, for the increase in CiVilian casualties. you see now is the result Of fighting an evil enemy; ” the U. S. Central Command said in an email response tO TIME's inquiry,. Still, intense use of airpower in densely populated cities risks alienat- ing the ordinary people whose coopera- tion the coalition needs for the political contest at the heart Of things. "lf you're doing a 10t ofdamage t0 civilians, ISIS is

Biden, Massachusetts Senator ElizabethWarren and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders—the youngest is Warren, now 67. Each of the four highest-ranking Senate Democrats is 66 or Older, and the trio leading the House are all at least 75. "lt's hard t0 disagree with the premise that the bench is weak' ” says Amanda Litman, a former Clinton campaign offlcial whO CO- founded Run for Something. With few exceptions, most Democratic activlsts whO went intO politics over the past decade have since gone elsewhere for work, choosing lucrative jobs over the drudgery 0f electoral politics. "They know politics well enough t0 know how crappy it is," explains Gupta. "The idea that you would spend seven days a week raising money, give up a great life SO you can have billionaires run adS attacking you in your hometown and, ifyou win, spend your time in D ℃ . with sociopaths? lt's understandable that people weren't deciding tO run. On his way out the door, Obama tried t0 address the problem. At his farewell speech ⅲ Chicago on Jan. 10 , the former President made a plea tO his young supporters. "lf you're disappointed by your elected offcials; ” he said, grab a clipboard, get some signatures and run for Off1ce yourself. ” Ronnie ChO was ⅲ the crowd that night, and the line struck a chord. He was an original Obama acolyte, crisscrossing the lowa cornfields in 2007 as a caucus organizer on his campalgn and later following the President tO the White House. So at age 34 , he decided t0 leave his job as a vice president for MTV in New York City to run for an open city council seat in his East Village neighborhood this fall. He's not the only Obama alumnus looking to jump into the ring this year. "I think many ofus; ” he says, are eager t0 give it a shOt. ” Alejandra Campoverdi, another former Obama campaign aide turned White House staffer, ran in an April 4 special election for a House seat in LOS Angeles County. (She lost. ) Haley Stevens, a 2008 Clinton and Obama campaign aide whO went on tO work in the Treasury Dep artment, is leaving her j ob as a digital manufacturing executive tO explore a campaign for Congress in her native Michigan. 'lt's not like l've been planning some political run; ” says Stevens, 33 , who began mulling abid for the Detroit- area seat on election night as she watched the dismal returns trickle in with Clinton's te am at the Javits 'IFWEWANTTO SEE CHANGE, THE BESTWAYWE CAN MAKE 旧 STO RUN FOR OFFICE.' HEATHER WARD, 21 , a college senior -and candidate fo 「 a school board in Chester County, Pennsylvania 0 the President's Cabinet picks is now being channeled HALEY intO concrete campaigns tO groom a new generation STEVENS, 33 of Democrats. "lf we want to see change, the best way we can make it is tO run for Offce,: ” says Heather 可 0 加 g a Ward, a 21-year-01d senior at Villanova University campaign fO 「 wh0 is running for a sch001 board seat near PhiIa- Congress 加 Michigan's ユ 1t わ delphia. "Making phone calls to Representatives is CongressionaI great. But it's the people in those offces wh0 make District the decisions. •Worked as a Some Republican strategists worry that they have campaign aide seen hOW this sort Of activism can end. ln 2009 and for Obama and 2010 , a small-government uprising against a new HiIIary CIinton President propelled the GOP back into the House ・ A Michigan majority and bred a new crop Of conservative stars. native, She served as chiefof "lt's almost like the beginning ofthe Tea Party move- staff on Obama's ment times two,: ” says Chip Lake, a Georgia GOP presidential strategist wh0 worked for Price and says OSS0ff's task force tO strength foreshadows trouble for his party ⅲ the restructure the 2018 midterms. "lt's a big deal. Clearly we should autO industry be pulling the fire alarm. ” ・ Left the Obama Administration tO work in advanced IT WASN'T LONG AGO that the opposite was true. manufacturing On the morning Of NOV. 9 , Democrats awoke to econonmc Republican control 0f the White House, both development, chambers 0f Congress, 33 governorships and 69 of m OSt rece ntly 99 state legislative chambers. The roster 0f party fora national i n novati on- leaders are a rather geriatric bunch. Of the most research lab prominent figures whO might consider running for President in 2020—former Vice President Joe 29

AmericanVoices Time 0 JO 取 eg a ー 0 , actor The award-winning dramatist returns tO the stage tO explore his ancestors' contributions in 0 ⅱ n HistoryforMorons. Leguizamo discusses what he learned from his childhood bullies, the struggle tO find meaningful roles and the healing power Of storytelling JOHN LEGUIZAMO HAS A RECURRING BIT IN LATIN HISTORY for Moro , the one-man show he's performing through April 28 at New York City's PubIic Theater. Anytime he's insulted by another character—played, as they all are, by Leguizamo—he stands on tiptoe, puffs up his chest like a threatened grizzly and demands, "DO you た〃 OW me, man? ” lt's a memorable refrain, but it's a red herring. The show only exists because ofLeguizamo's realization, a few years back, that he didn't know himself. Although Leguizamo, 52 , is well-known for movie roles like Benny Blanco from the Bronx in Carlito's Way and Tybalt in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo 十 Juliet, も砒ⅲ History is his sixth one-man play. lt's a primer on the history ofpeople 0fLatin descent 'Who else in the Americas, flavored by the iS like me performer's raunchy humor, dance whO is going moves and spirited impressions, which range from his therapist to to feel the the Aztec emperor Moctezuma Ⅱ . same kind of But it's also a comedic lament for the healing from pain ofknowing how his people's seeing Latin contributions have been minimized stories told?' throughout American history. "lfl would have read in a textbook as a kid that 10 , 000 [Hispanics] participated in the CiviI War and Cuban women in Virginia sold theirjewelry to feed the patriots; ” he says, people wouldn't feel so confident to disrespect me. I wouldn't feel as victimized, because I would g0,WeII, no! This is my country too. BORN IN BOGOTÅ and raised in New York City, Leguizamo felt scorned from an early age. "I had a lot ofencounters with bullies, sometimes being the only Latin person in the neighborhood' ” he recalls. "People always said, Why don't you go back to your country? What have your people ever done?' ” As a defense mechanism, he developed the sense ofhumor that would propel his interest in theater. But when he tried to break into film and TV ⅲ the mid-1980s, he faced limited options. "I went to col- lege. l'm an educated man,: ” he remembers thinking. "And all I can play are drug dealers, killers, servants? ” Facing a ChOice between negative representations or none at all, he decided on a third path, creating his own roles. When he staged his first play, Mambo MO 砒 in. 1990 , to 70 spectators ⅲ folding chairs, he found an audience willing to listen. And notjust any audience: among the crowd was one OfhiS favorite playwrights, Arthur Miller. Leguizamo had found a stage 42 TIME April 24 , 2017 where he might be taken seriously. Even as hiS opportunities onscreen expanded—he played a bohemian artist inMoulin Rouge! and VOiced a lisping sloth ⅲ the IceAge franchise— Leguizamo kept returning tO the theater. The idea for も砒ⅲ History came from his son, who in middle school began t0 experience the same bullying his father once had. The play interweaves Leguizamo's lessons on pre-Columbian culture and Hispanic military heroes with his own quest tO figure out how best t0 parent his child. Between those emotional moments and sp ontaneous eruptions intO dance—samba, mambo, even an lrishjig—he keeps the theater from ever feeling like a classroom. The show is more than a rejoinder tO bullies past and present. lt's part ofa body ofwork that responds to an industry that once t01d Leguizamo he could only play dangerous characters ー an industry that has changed, he says, but "not quick enough, not big enough. Three decades later, he sees power in his stories. "l'm writing this for me, because this is how I take care ofmyself, with how invisible we Latin people are in the media; ” he says. But soon after he begins tO write, another question emerges: 'WhO else iS like me who is going to feel the same kind ofhealing from seeing Latin stories told? ” Those stories feel more urgent than ever tO Leguizamo, whO says that between recent headlines about deportations and Pre s ident Trump's rhetoric about Latinos on the campalgn trail last year, 'my show has much more bite. ” ln the end, his research became more than fodder for a play. "I feel so empowered now that I know my history," he says. "l've got facts, l've got numbers, l've got proof. ” ー・ ELIZA BERMAN For more Voices, visittime.com/AmericanVoices MOVES WITH MADGE One of Leguizamo's first gigs was dancing in the music video for Madonna's 1984 hit "Borderline MIC 工 AEL LOCCISANO—GETTY IMAGES