Comment on Rights Group Calls for Probe into Suspected Airstrike as the Battle for Mosul Continues

Rights Group Calls for Probe into Suspected Airstrike as the Battle for Mosul Continues

(BARTELLA, Iraq) — Iraqi forces shelled Islamic State (ISIS) positions outside Mosul on Monday as fighting to retake the extremist-held city entered its second week. A rights group, meanwhile, urged a probe into a suspected airstrike last week that mistakenly hit a mosque, killing over a dozen civilians. The purported airstrike in northern Iraq struck the women’s section of a Shiite mosque on Friday in the town of Daquq amid a large ISIS assault on the nearby city of Kirkuk.

 

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