THE BATTLE FOR MOSUL
In 2014, ISIS launched a lightning offensive across northern Iraq, capturing huge swathes of territory. The city of Mosul crumbled in a matter of hours. The fight to retake the city would take many months, cost tens fo thousands of lives and see hundreds of thousands of civilians displaced. The battle saw some of the fiercest urban combat since World War Two. In mid-2017 the Iraqi government finally declared victory over ISIS in Mosul, yet much the city they had liberated now lay in ruins.
In 2014, ISIS launched a lightning offensive across northern Iraq, capturing huge swathes of territory. The city of Mosul crumbled in a matter of hours. The fight to retake the city would take many months, cost tens fo thousands of lives and see hundreds of thousands of civilians displaced. The battle saw some of the fiercest urban combat since World War Two. In mid-2017 the Iraqi government finally declared victory over ISIS in Mosul, yet much the city they had liberated now lay in ruins.