Commander of “Nineveh, We Are Coming” operations, Lt. Gen. Abdul Amir Rasheed Yar Allah, announced on Friday that six neighborhoods in the eastern edge of Mosul city have been liberated from the grip of the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group, and that the Iraqi ...
ISIL group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is losing the ability to keep control of his troops as the battle for Mosul rages on, a US military official said Thursday. ISIL earlier released an audio message purportedly of Baghdadi, in which he urged his ‘jihadi’ followers not retreat as Iraqi security ...