
The first thing that strikes(给……留下深刻印象) visitors arriving in Faka, a small village in al-Ayadiya district, northern Iraq, is the silence. No children play in the streets. No shops are open. Roofless houses stretch across(绵延,延伸) the hillside, their walls pockmarked(布满麻点的,坑坑洼洼的) by shellfire, while weeds and wild grasses grow through collapsed living rooms.
来到伊拉克北部阿亚迪亚地区小村庄法卡的访客,首先感受到的是寂静。街上没有孩子玩耍,商店全都关门。无顶的房屋遍布山坡,墙壁上弹痕累累,杂草和野草从坍塌的客厅里长出来。
A decade after Islamic State (IS) swept(席卷,横扫) across the region, war remains visible everywhere. But according to the people who returned, another enemy has quietly taken its place(取而代之).
在伊斯兰国(IS)横扫该地区十年后,战争的痕迹依然随处可见。但据返乡者说,另一个敌人已悄然取而代之。
• Rajab Mohammed says the problem in his village of Faka is no longer Islamic State but water and jobs
• 拉贾布·穆罕默德说,他的法卡村的问题不再是伊斯兰国,而是水和就业。