Art that survived Isis and Saddam regimes to go on display in London

Emotionally powerful exhibition of Iraqi Kurdish artists will include paintings peppered by bullets

Kurdish artworks that survived Saddam Hussein's use of chemical weapons as well as Islamic State's cultural vandalism will go on display at a London gallery this week.

Iraqi Kurdish artists have made paintings and art installations from artefacts including Assyrian reliefs from 700 BC peppered by Isis bullet holes and the farewell "death" notes of a charity worker smuggling aid to Isis-controlled Mosul.