Jan 29, 2017 · When the campaign to expel the Islamic State from Mosul began, on October 17th, the Nineveh Province SWAT team was deployed far from the action, in the village of Kharbardan.

The Nineveh SWAT Team, a police division made up of men native to Mosul who lost family members to ISIS and led by Commander Major Jasem, offers Kawa to join them since he lost his uncle to ISIS and is thus eligible to become part of their team.

Nov 25, 2020 · The Nineveh SWAT Team is made up of policemen from inside and around the city of Mosul, a place thousands of years old, with a vibrant, multi-cultural history due to its proximity to Syria, Turkey and Iran. And up until 2014, it was home to 2 million Iraqis.

Dec 3, 2020 · In the opening scenes of Mosul, rookie Iraqi Kurdish policeman Kawa (played by Tunisian actor Adam Bessa) is recruited on a corpse-strewn battlefield by the grizzled and ruthless Major Jasem...

The Nineveh SWAT Team was an elite police unit made up of men from the city of Mosul, Iraq. The team was created in 2008 and, in conjunction with US special forces, conducted raids in Mosul to arrest high-value terrorism suspects during the Iraq War.

Oct 14, 2021 · This video was shown to New Yorker journalist Mogelson by a SWAT team member named Bashar Hamood. In the Netflix film, it is explained to the fictional character Kawa that it is footage such as this that provokes the team to kill the ISIS fighters they capture.

Dec 4, 2020 · In February 2017, The New Yorker published a long account of Ninewa province’s SWAT team as they fought the self-proclaimed Islamic State in the embattled city of Mosul, Iraq. Each SWAT member had endured personal tragedy at the hands of ISIS, and their mission was to take revenge against its remaining fighters.

Dec 12, 2020 · Mosul tells a true story of the self-directed Iraqi Nineveh SWAT team to combat the suppression by IS by retaking the second-largest city in Iraq: Mosul. The city had been occupied since 2014 and six thousand militants from IS lived there.

Mar 6, 2017 · Civilians fleeing Mosul spoke of hiding in basements and surviving on rotten bread for days as fighting raged. ISIL's use of human shields is not a new tactic, according to the commander of the...

Feb 8, 2017 · The SWAT-team members were desperate to join the battle. They called relatives in Mosul, chain-smoked cigarettes, and excoriated the war planners, from Baghdad, who seemed to have forgotten them. Major Mezher Sadoon, the deputy commander, urged patience: the campaign would unfold in stages.