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    Iraqi families suspected of militant ties pay price

    by Alexandra Zavis, Los Angeles Times Feb 27, 2018 5 minutes

    HAMAM ALIL, Iraq - Aliya Mohammed begged her son not to get mixed up with Islamic State. Now she is paying the price for his decision to defy her.

    Last year, as Iraqi forces were liberating the city of Mosul and surrounding areas from a three-year occupation by the extremists, pro-government militiamen carried away her carpets, furniture and plasma television. Then they set her house on fire.

    Neighbors and a nephew assisted in the destruction. The word "Daesh" - a derisive Arabic acronym for Islamic State - was left scrawled across a charred wall.

    "Why did they do this?" asked Mohammed, who was recently widowed. "I know that my boy was at fault, but my husband didn't do anything wrong. He just did his work."

    Today, months after the fighting ended, she is trapped in a camp for

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