BAGHDAD: A female reporter working for Iraqi Kurdish channel ‘Rudaw’ was killed while covering the fighting between government forces and the IS group in Mosul, her channel saidon Saturday. “Prominent Rudaw war reporter and journalist Shifa Gardi has been killed in Mosul as she covered clashes,”Rudaw said on social media. “Journalism remains male-dominated, but Shifa Gardi broke those perceptions and stereotypes and we pay tribute to her courageous journalism,” the channel said. Rudaw editors told AFP that she was killed by an explosive device on a road in west Mosul and said that the cameraman accompanying her was wounded. He was transferred to Arbil, the nearby capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region where the channel is headquartered. Iraqi forces entered the neighbourhoods of the west bank of Mosul on Friday for the first time since the start of a huge offensive to retake the city from the IS group.