BBCNEWS World News Today December 24, 2017
Midnight in Northern Iraq where mosul is celebrating its first christmas at the city was taken by islamic militants in 2014. Is persecuted and drove out christians, whilst many who stayed were brutally repressed. More than 10,000 civilians are thought to have been killed in the battle to retake mosul according to a recent investigation by the associated press. They gathered in mosuls cathedral, marking a christmas they will never forget, the first christmas after the war. Under the rule of the Islamic State militants this would have been impossible. There could be no christian worship in publi...