Iraqi military forces paraded through the Iraqi capital Baghdad to celebrate the recapture of Mosul, the country’s second-largest city and former self-declared capital of the Islamic State (IS) militant group.
The celebration on July 15 comes a week after Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi officially announced “victory” in Mosul over the IS extremists, who had held the northern city since taking it from government forces in 2014.
