
Iraqi government forces have pushed deeper in Mosul’s militant-held district of Old City as they are battling to purge ISIL Takfiri militants out of their last bastion in the country’s second largest city, warning civilians to stay inside and telling extremists to “surrender or die.” Staff Major General Maan al-Saadi, ...

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 ...