
The Iraqi forces battled ISIL terrorists in their last holdouts in Old Mosul on Wednesday. “Today, our advance was easier than yesterday,” said Lieutenant Colonel Haidar Hussein, a commander in Iraq’s elite Counter-Terrorism Service. “We took control of more than 200 meters (yards) today and there are less than 200 ...

The Lebanese Minister of Information, Melhem Riachy, said in the wake of the cabinet session held this Wednesday that President Michel Aoun had called “on the judiciary to play a key role in tuning down security chaos, in cooperation with the security services,” praising “the performance of the Army and ...