Ayad al-Jumaili, believed to be a deputy of ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in an air strike on Friday, an Iraqi intelligence spokesman said on Saturday. The U.S.-led anti-ISIL coalition said it was unable at the moment to confirm the information that was reported earlier in the day ...
The operation to liberate the northern Iraqi city of Mosul from ISIL Takfiri will be completed by the end of spring, Iraqi general said. Brig. Gen. Shaker Alwan Khafaji, one of the Iraqi Federal Police heads, told Sputnik that Mosul’s liberation from the Takfiri terrorists will take weeks. “The IS ...