Summary
One side of the billboard calls for jihad, while the other warns of death for smokers. Iraq's Hawijah still bears clear signs of its three years under militant rule. Daesh (ISIS) militants set fire to everything they could before they fled an Iraqi government military offensive on the northern town in the oil-rich Kirkuk province.
Thick black smoke billows from burning oil wells around the town.
The desolation is the same inside the town, where the 70,000 Sunni residents who were believed to have stayed on under Daesh rule are nowhere to be seen.
Hawijah, 230 kilometers north of Baghdad, was at the center of a pocket of mainly Sunni towns that were among the group's final holdouts.
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