Iraq’s Bashiqa Brings Back the Booze To Clear IS Hangover
Surrounded by the ruins of pastel-coloured buildings still bearing slogans glorifying the Islamic State’s “caliphate”, Wissam Ghanem is having a slow day selling beer, vodka and whisky. Iraqi forces expelled the jihadists from his town of Bashiqa, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) northeast of Mosul, in December but it was badly damaged and few people … Read more