A senior Iraqi commander says fierce clashes between special forces and ISIL militants are taking place in two neighborhoods in eastern Mosul. The head of Iraq’s elite counterterrorism forces, Gen. Abdel Ghani al-Asadi, told Iraqi state TV on Monday that his forces pushed deeper into the Shurta neighborhood. Al-Asadi described ...
A security source in Iraq’s Kirkuk reported on Friday that ISIL terrorists set fire on a mother and her four children under the pretext of leaving the “land of the Caliphate.” Media reports confirmed that ISIL militants arrested the family, composed of a mother, three girls and one boy, on ...
