After overcoming ISIS forces in the village of Badana near Mosul, Peshmerga forces expose a network of tunnels carved by the group, from which operations were launched.

The tunnels are split into two levels: ISIS militants use the top level for operational purposes and sleep in the darker lower level. Fighters lay bare the grim reality of conditions that the group are currently facing, with minimal resources strewn throughout the tunnels.

ISIS’s loss of Badana comes as the Peshmerga are making strong progress on Mosul’s eastern axis, having liberated the villages of Nouran and Barima near the area of Bashiqa. However, tunnels such as these documented by Al Hadath continue to slow the progress of Iraqi forces.