Long after guns fall silent, Mosul residents suffer hearing loss After air strikes, mortar rounds, and car bombs pummelled the Iraqi northern city of Mosul relentlessly for nearly nice months, thousands of residents still suffer hearing problems ranging from tinnitus to profound deafness. In Mosul, civilians were exposed to repeated loud blasts that sent between 15 and 20 a day to hospitals complaining of hearing loss. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES