[8] Ranja Jamal, another Rudaw reporter who was also in Mosul when Gardi died explained that she had been given information regarding the valley but was not able to find it.

[9] Rudaw Executive Director Ako Mohamm said, "We were always urging them to be behind the front lines of the war, telling them that they were not soldiers or Peshmerga fighters.

"[12] Falah Mustafa, minister of the foreign relations department for the Kurdistan Regional Government, described Gardi in a tweet as a "role model to young women.

[10] The bomb also wounded her cameraman Younis Mustafa who was transferred to Erbil, the nearby capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region where the channel is headquartered.

[citation needed] Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said, "We are determined to follow the terrorism that is trying to kill our sons and our citizens everywhere.

"[10] Brett H. McGurk, a US special presidential envoy involved with counter-terrorism, said, "She was everything ISIS fears: a journalist exposing their lies.

"[10] Kurdish Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani, said,"She joins a list of irreplaceable people lost in this war.