Mosul IS battle: Iraqi forces retake Badoush prison
Iraqi forces have recaptured a prison north-west of Mosul that was reportedly the scene of a massacre by Islamic State militants, the military says. Units of the army's 9th Armoured Division and allied militiamen raised the Iraqi flag over Badoush prison on Wednesday, a statement said. The Sunni extremist group is alleged to have killed […]Iraqi forces have recaptured a prison north-west of Mosul that was reportedly the scene of a massacre by Islamic State militants, the military says.
Units of the army's 9th Armoured Division and allied militiamen raised the Iraqi flag over Badoush prison on Wednesday, a statement said.
The Sunni extremist group is alleged to have killed up to 600 inmates there, most of them Shia Muslims, in 2014.
