A US general said on Thursday that between 800 and 900 ISIL Takfiri militants have been killed since the operation to recapture Iraqi city of Mosul from the terrorists began. “Just in the operations over the last week and a half associated with Mosul, we estimate they’ve probably killed about ...
Militants of the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group were shaving their beards and changing hideouts in Mosul, residents said, as Iraqi forces moved ever closer to the city Wednesday and civilians fled in growing numbers. Residents and military officials said many ISIL gunmen had ...