I was in Mosul when ISIS overthrew the city in 2014. I recorded everything I saw and evaded the terrorists hunting me
Politics I was in Mosul when ISIS overthrew the city in 2014. I recorded everything I saw and evaded the terrorists hunting me By Omar Mohammed Published July 18, 2026, 8:00 a.m. Add The New York Post on Google On June 10, 2014, the city of Mosul — Iraq’s second largest, home to nearly two million people, built on and around the ruins of the Assyrian capital Nineveh — fell to the Islamic State in a single night.
- ▪Politics I was in Mosul when ISIS overthrew the city in 2014.
- ▪I recorded everything I saw and evaded the terrorists hunting me By Omar Mohammed Published July 18, 2026, 8:00 a.m.
- ▪Add The New York Post on Google On June 10, 2014, the city of Mosul — Iraq’s second largest, home to nearly two million people, built on and around the ruins of the Assyrian capital Nineveh — fell to the Islamic State in a single night.
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