KURDISH TV REPORTER KILLED IN MOSUL

A reporter working for Iraqi Kurdish channel Rudaw was killed on Saturday while covering the fighting between government forces and the Islamic State group in Mosul, her channel said. “Prominent Rudaw war reporter and journalist Shifa Gardi has been killed in Mosul as she covered clashes,” Rudaw said in a statement. “Journalism remains male-dominated — Shifa Gardi broke those perceptions and stereotypes — we pay tribute to her courageous journalism,” the channel said. Rudaw editors said she was killed by an explosive device on a road in west Mosul and said that the cameraman accompanying her was wounded. Iraqi forces entered neighbourhoods of the west bank of Mosul on Friday as they attempt to retake the city from IS.