Paul Antonopoulos
The Iraqi army have just liberated the Assyrian town of Karemlash from ISIS to the east of Mosul.
The town lays 6km north of Qaraqosh, which was liberated earlier in the day.
Karemlash had a pre-ISIS invasion population of around 10,000 before
they all fled to Erbil with the withdrawal of Kurdish forces.
During the ISIS occupation, an 80-year-old Assyrian woman was sentenced
to death for "failing to comply with the strict laws of the Islamic
State". The terrorist group also destroyed a large portion of the
Historic Mar Behnam Monastery.
Deputy-Editor
at Al-Masdar News, Lecturer at Charles Sturt University and Researcher
at Western Sydney University. MA in International Relations.