Tag: Bashiqa

Iraqi government forces launched a major offensive to recapture the city of Mosul from the Islamic State group on October ...

Surrounded by the ruins of pastel-coloured buildings still bearing slogans glorifying the Islamic State's "caliphate", Wissam Ghanem is having a ...

Six stories you may have missed because of US election Iraqi Kurdish forces seized the town of Bashiqa near Mosul ...

Footage captures explosions near the Iraqi town of Bashiqa, where Kurdish forces have launched fresh Kurdish forces have carried out ...

Many have fled the area round Mosul as government and Kurdish forces close in. Forces of so-called Islamic State have ...