With Mosul in ruins and nearly a million displaced, Iraq now faces the enormous task of restoring order and rebuilding its second city after driving out Islamic State group jihadists. After eight months of gruelling fighting against IS, Iraqi forces are in control of Mosul. <br/><br/>But the famed Old City has been reduced to rubble and the iconic leaning minaret of its Al-Nuri mosque, the image of which adorns the 10,000 dinar note, lies in ruins. The ancient, crowded alleys have become a silent maze of stone and iron skeletons, marked by mountains of rubble, craters and burned-out cars emitting a putrid odour of decaying bodies. <br/><br/>Omar Fadel, a municipality employee who returned a month ago to his neighbourhood of old Sinaaya, close to the ruins of the Al-Nuri mosque said the price of freedom is very high. Lise Grande, the United Nations' humanitarian coordinator for Iraq, said that Mosul represents the biggest stabilisation challenge the UN has ever faced – the scale, the complexity, the scope of it. <br/><br/>Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared the city liberated on July 9, but the threat of violence has not disappeared.