When an elderly man bursts into tears after realising that ISIL’s reign of terror has come to an end in his neighbourhood, one soldier walks up to embrace him, while another offers him a cigarette.
ISIS forced the Christians of the Nineveh plain around Mosul to flee. Now they are returning, but in the key town of […]
As Iraqi forces in Mosul engage in some of the fiercest fighting yet against ISIL, Florian Neuhof takes a look at life […]
The battle with ISIL for the university had been a harsh lesson for Iraqi troops and although it was won, the war […]
The battle to retake Mosul from the so-called Islamic State is far from over. But the liberated zones feel very liberated indeed.
