Bashiqa is a Yezidi settlement that had some 140,000 residents before ISIS captured it in 2014, along with Mosul some 13 kilometers to the southwest. Assyrian Christians and Arabic Muslims were a minority there.
Local residents and Kurdish militia fighters have restored a cross to the top of Saint George’s church in the Bashiqa. The cross was destroyed by ISIS terrorist group after they captured the town two years ago.
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