Bashiqah Mountain is a mountain located northeast of Mosul, Iraq, east of Khorsabad and nearby Bashiqa township and near Ain Sifni in northern Iraq.[1]
The mountain is located behind Bashiqa township, is 359 km north of Baghdad in Nineveh Governorate, and located at 36,4531n and 43,3478e. It is 326 above sea level.
The mountain became a strategic point following the Fall of Mosul to ISIS in 2014 but was retaken with the recapture of Mosul in July 2017. The hill was heavily fortified by ISIS.[2] The mountain has since been taken by Kurdish Peshmerga forces.[3][4]
Climate
editThe climate is Csa under the Köppen-Geiger system, average temperature in Bashiqah is 19.5°C and the average annual rainfall is 572 mm.
References
edit- ^ Bashiqa Mountain from Ain Sifni.
- ^ Islamic States Network of Tunnels is more vast than ever imagined. December 17, 2016.
- ^ http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Entity/Locations-and-natural-formations/951072808/Bashiqa-mountain.ashx Archived 2017-08-22 at the Wayback Machine Bashiqa-mountain.] at The Daily Star.
- ^ Ari Shapiro, From A Mountain, Kurds Keep Watch On ISIS In Mosul, 20 February 2015.