Mosul: ISIS occupied the Iraqi city of Mosul. During those years, the only group to fight the occupiers continuously was Nineveh province’s SWAT unit, made up of local men
who had either been injured or had a family member killed by ISIS. Carnahan’s Mosul is a gripping tribute to these fighters for whom the incentives were intensely personal.
Kawa (Adam Bessa), a 21-year-old police officer, barely survives a firefight. When the smoke clears he meets the men who saved his life, the Nineveh SWAT, led by Jasem
(Suhail Dabbach). Kawa’s own uncle was recently killed by ISIS. He joins the group, though they’ve been reduced to just a dozen men with three Humvees and a...
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