Sope Dirisu Played in this 2016 film about a young rifleman tasked with restoring water to an Iraq Village?
Sand Castle (film) Sand Castle is an American war drama film directed by Fernando Coimbra and written by Chris Roessner. The film stars Nicholas Hoult, Henry Cavill, Logan Marshall-Green, Tommy Flanagan, Glen Powell, Beau Knapp, and Neil Brown Jr. The film centers on Matt Ocre, a young rifleman in the United States Army, who is tasked with restoring water to a village in Iraq. It is based on the true events and the experience of the film's writer Roessner during the Iraq War. It was released on 21 April 2017 on Netflix.
Battle of Mosul (2016–17) The Battle of Mosul (2016–17) (Arabic: معركة الموصل‎ ‎ , "Ma‘rakat al-Mawṣil"; Central Kurdish: شەڕی مووسڵ‎ , "Şeriy Mûsil") was a major military campaign launched by the Iraqi Government forces with allied militias, the Kurdistan Regional Government, and international forces to retake the city of Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which had seized the city in June 2014. During the military intervention against ISIL, Iraqi and Peshmerga forces had already made unsuccessful attempts to retake the city in 2015 and again in 2016, despite limited gains.