Iraqi forces on Sunday launched an assault to retake Mosul’s Old City and push out the ISIL Takfiri group, three years after the terrorists seized the city and announced their “caliphate”. “The army, counter-terrorism forces and federal police launched an attack on the Old City,” Staff Lieutenant General Abdulamir Yarallah ...
Iraqi forces have seized from ISIL terrorists one of the official border crossings between the country and Syria, thus choking a key supply line feeding the Takfiri terrorist group. Al-Waleed, which together with two other passageways links Iraq and Syria, came under government control on Saturday, Reuters reported. The advance ...
