Politicians, journalists and members of the public have joined together in mourning after news of the death of Shifa Gardi, the Iraqi Kurdish TV journalist killed in a roadside bomb blast while covering clashes between Iraqi forces and ISIL in Mosul. Rudaw editors told AFP that the 30-year-old reporter, who was born a refugee in Iran, was killed by an explosive device on a road in west Mosul and said that the cameraman working with her was wounded. Iraqi troops advance towards Mosul's southern neighbourhood of Jawasaq on February 24, 2017 during an ongoing offensive to retake the northern city from jihadists of the Islamic State group Iraqi forces entered west Mosul neighbourhoods, a key stronghold in the shrinking "caliphate" of the Islamic State group, which replied with deadly suicide attacks in Iraq and Syria. At least two #Peshmarga soldiers have named their newborn babies "Shifa," to honor our daring journalist Shifa Gardi. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The BBC's Quentin Sommerville has this week been embedded with Iraq's forces in Mosul

Gardi had been presenting a daily programme on the Mosul offensive for Rudaw TV and had recently started to cover the war from inside Mosul, the channel said on its website.
Shifa Gardi, a prominent female reporter for Rudaw Media Network, is killed by a roadside bomb while reporting on the battle for Mosul.