Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar Abadi said on Thursday that the army progress in Mosul is faster than what was expected, noting that who are fighting ISIL are Iraqi fighters that are defending all the Iraqis against ISIL threat. During his Paris conference televised address, Abadi said that the foreign troops ...
Residents of Mosul said the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) was using civilians as human shields as Iraqi and Popular Mobilization forces captured outlying villages in their advance on the terrorists’ stronghold, Reuters news agency reported. The ISIL leader was reported to be among thousands of ...