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With extremists gone, booze is back in Mosul

China Daily | Updated: 2018-12-03 07:49

Liquor stores out in the open again but not everyone is happy with city's growth business

MOSUL, Iraq - Rows of yellow-labeled whiskey bottles sit alongside imported French wines, while cans of Korean beer chill in the fridge: with Iraq's Mosul free of jihadists, the booze is back.

The city spent three years under the iron-fisted rule of the Islamic State group, which punished those caught drinking alcohol with public lashings or worse.

With extremists gone, booze is back in Mosul

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