Iraqi forces retook a key town from the Takfiri ISIL group Monday, a crucial objective on the southern front of the operation to wrest back the city of Mosul. Federal police, army and elite interior ministry forces established full control over Hamam al-Alil, the last town of note on the ...
Commander of Iraqi Nineveh operations, Maj. Gen. Najim Abdullah al-Jubouri, said Sunday the battle to liberate Mosul have so far killed two thousand armed men of the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group, including the main leaders.” Jubouri said that “preliminary tolls of the ongoing ...
