Well done to you and Jane Ferguson! Well deserved for everyone working on the Iraq coverage. x.com/AlesPavone/sta…

.Heathcliff As a freelance (where I pay for flights), it's more of a headache and affects livelihood. Other depends on specific threat.

The leaning minaret al-Nuri mosque, where ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared his… instagram.com/p/BSLF_Y-A6Al/

Under the smoke from burning oil wells, set alight by the #Islamicstate, an Emergency Response… instagram.com/p/BSN0ZPEAaS0/

Latest story “In West #Mosul, #Iraqi Troops With Heavy Weapons Battle #ISIS Snipers” warisboring.com/in-west-mosul-… #mosuloffensive #iraq

Two days ago in West Mosul. An #Iraqi Federal Police officer shouts, after psyching himself up,… instagram.com/p/BSax1XHgf-y/

Read my latest in Spectator Life #iraq #mosul #isis x.com/Spectator_LIFE…

First #satellite image by DigitalGlobe shows indeed no more burning #oil wells at #Qayyarah, after 8 months of fires blackened the skies

Iraqis have lived with smoke from burning oil wells for 10 months. Immersive report by Daniel Adamson Namak Khoshnaw bbc.co.uk/news/resources…

I Spent Two Years Botting on Instagram — Here’s What I Learned petapixel.com/2017/04/06/spe…

10 days after the fall of #Mosul to the #islamicstate. Aya and Bilal Mahdi sleep in the shade of… instagram.com/p/BSlPVfLAxVR/

From sullying the waters w corpses, to blowing irrigation works, IS has left Iraq's rivers in a bleak state. By me foreignaffairs.com/articles/iraq/…

“For freelancers, timely pay could be a matter of survival.” by Frontline Freelance Register medium.com/@ffregister/fo…

ISIL-held urban Mosul is now about 13.6 square km, versus 175.6 sq km in November. Down to the last 7% of the city.

My forthcoming piece in next CTC at West Point with @AlexMello02 looks at Daesh's evolving defensive style in the Mosul battle - a true cauldron battle

My latest for War Is Boring Two days inside the battle for West Mosul: warisboring.com/two-days-insid… #mosul #mosuloffensive #iraq #ISIS #frontline

1- Poor people of Foua &Kefraya. Besieged for yrs &today attacked as they finally were going to be evacuated to regime areas. #Syria Akhbar Al Aan أخبار الآن

Back in the UK. So much to get done, of course it's a bank holiday weekend.

"I will reveal something different...about Syria" says Sergey Ponomarev of his forthcoming Imperial War Museum show Imperial War Museums #iwm #syria

Latest from Matt Cetti-Roberts in #Mosul warisboring.com/we-have-had-th…