Baghdad, Iraq - Recent (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Camp for displaced ones
2. Various of senior, children in camp
3. Farooq Abu Rayan, his wife Amira Toma, meeting reporter
4. Coffee put on table
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Amira Toma, former resident of Hamdaniya (starting with shot 4):
"We used to have a car and a house and shops. I used to go to my job at the Hamdaniya hospital. My son worked, my husband worked, we didn't have any troubles."
6. Family of Farooq Abu Rayan talking to reporter
7. Amira Toma, little boy talking to reporter
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Farooq Abu Rayan, former resident of Hamdaniya (partially overlaid with shot 9):
"We got some gold pieces and fled directly to Turkey. We inquired at the United Nations office, but we never had luck there so we came back and from then until now we remain here."
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9. Reporter
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10. Various of Fatlhallah Hadda Hazu on wheelchair watching TV
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fatlhallah Hadda Hazu, former resident of Mosul (partially overlaid with shot 12/ending with shot 13):
"I saw a man who was just walking in the street and they just killed him. We saw this several times so I thought that someday soon I would be dead too, so I chose to flee."
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12. Portrait of Mary (Mother of Jesus), clock, crosses
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13. Children in camp
14. Children in House of Creativity orphanage
15. Saif Salih Husham singing
16. Saif Salih Husham with children in orphanage
17. Various of Ali Hazim teaching children math
18. Various of children in orphanage watching movie
19. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ali Hazim, orphan at House of Creativity (starting with shot 18):
"Not everybody can have a place like this. From this place a kid can become anything, a painter, and an artist or a musician. And as well he will acquire forty brothers instead of just one."
20. Children in orphanage watching movie
21. Camp for displaced ones
22. Football field in camp
23. Various of children playing football

Though in Iraq the guns are now largely silent, 15 years after the invasion by a U.S.-led coalition, Iraq is not yet ready to talk about the scars of war when for many its aftermath remains an open wound.

No one knows for sure how many people have been killed or injured since the U.S.-led coalition toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, though even conservative estimates run into the hundreds of thousands. Millions more fled abroad or have been displaced in their own country.

Though the U.S. withdrew all troops from Iraq in 2011, the war is far from over for many including an estimated two million Iraqis displaced within their own country.

Farooq Abu Rayan and his wife Amira Toma are from Hamdaniya near the former ISIL stronghold of Mosul. The family now live in a camp for displaced ones in Baghdad.

"We used to have a car and a house and shops. I used to go to my job at the Hamdaniya hospital. My son worked, my husband worked, we didn't have any troubles," said Amira Toma.

That all changed with a midnight call from a cousin alerting them that ISIL was close.

"We got some gold pieces and fled directly to Turkey. We inquired at the United Nations office, but we never had luck there so we came back and from then until now we remain here," said Farooq Abu Rayan.

Seventy-eight-year-old Fatlhallah Hadda Hazu's leg was amputated in the camp as a result of diabetes. As a former resident of Mosul, he is alone with only memories of the horrors left behind.

"I saw a man who was just walking in the street and they just killed him. We saw this several times so I thought that someday soon I would be dead too, so I chose to flee," he said.

There are more than 500 people in the camp -- one of many across Iraq where it is estimated about six million people have been displaced by ISIL's reign of terror.

Those in the camp survived ISIL and the bloodshed of the past 15 years. Many of the parents of some orphaned children did not.

Saif Salih Husham's mother and father were killed by a roadside bomb while traveling with him to Baghdad.

Ali Hazim's parents were murdered by extremists in Anbar province, which became a hotbed of insurgency after the 2003 invasion. He made his own way to a Baghdad orphanage called House of Creativity.

Here the children are fed, sheltered and taught a trade. Most importantly they are safe.

"Not everybody can have a place like this. From this place a kid can become anything, a painter, and an artist or a musician. And as well he will acquire forty brothers instead of just one," said Ali Hazim.

For the children there and the displaced in the camps, the legacy of the past 15 years of conflict is something they must still live with every day.