Assyrian Christian fighters rebuilt cross on top of a church after Battle of Mosul (2016-17)

Описание: This video is one of those quiet, powerful moments from the liberation of Iraq's Nineveh Plains.
What you're watching:
Assyrian Christian fighters carrying a handmade wooden cross up to the roof of a church they just retook from ISIS. The audio says it plainly: "I'm going to put the cross on the church."
The men are from the Nineveh Plain Protection Units (NPU) — an Assyrian paramilitary formed in late 2014 to defend their ancestral homeland after ISIS swept through northern Iraq. By December that year they had between 500 and 1,000 men in training, mostly volunteers from the diaspora.
Context matters here:
• Summer 2014: ISIS captures Mosul and the Nineveh Plains, home to Iraq's oldest Christian communities. Over 100,000 Christians flee overnight. ISIS tears down crosses, blows up churches, and marks Christian homes with ن (Nazarene).
• 2014-2015: Assyrians, who had relied on others for protection, form their own units — NPU, Dwekh Nawsha, Nineveh Plain Forces. The NPU aligned with the Iraqi Army.
• 2016-2017 Battle of Mosul: NPU fights to liberate towns like Bakhdida (Qaraqosh), Bartella, Karamlesh, and Tesqopa.
Putting the cross back became the ritual. As the National Catholic Register reported from Teleskuf-Tesqopa in 2017, "In every village liberated on the Plain of Nineveh, Christians have made wooden crosses and have placed them on the roofs of churches and homes". It wasn't just carpentry — it was a statement: we survived, we're home.
The clip you have looks like 2016 footage from around Bakhdida/Tesqopa, right after liberation. You can see the church bells still intact in the tower, the Iraqi flag tied to the cross at the end, and the patch on their shoulder — that's the NPU emblem.